Boxing icon Amoo Bediako fumes over Ghana’s failure to qualify for Paris 2024
By Lukman MUMIN, Accra
Michael Amoo Bediako, the bankroller of Boxing promotion firm,
Streetwise Foundation and Management has lamented over Ghana’s failure to qualify for the Olympic Games in Paris.
For the first time in over twenty years, Ghana failed to qualify for boxing at the multi-sport championship despite being considered one of the best in the sport globally.
Ghana’s last medal at the Olympic Games was in boxing just four years ago after Black Bomber Samuel Takyi finished on the podium in Tokyo.
“I was devastated [when no boxer qualified]. We should do better, we need to do better,” he said on Fight Talk Africa.
“These are the future of Ghana boxing, the amateurs. If you look around the world, a lot of countries invest heavily in their amateur programs, and these become professional boxers to raise the flags of their countries around the world.
“But as to not having any boxer qualifying, it’s criminal! That means fundamentally we are doing something wrong so we have to look at how this came about and fix it.
“We can’t keep going on the same way and expect every 30 years to get us a bronze medal, it’s not good enough.”
Ghana sent only eight athletes to the Olympic Games in Paris.
