Kwaku Ofosu Asare – LOC Chairman
The 13th African Games scheduled to take place in Accra this year has been postponed to March 2024.
The postponement was to allow for the completion and testing of facilities that would be used for the event.
And according to organisers of the event, the multi-sport competition christened ‘Accra 2023’ remains unchanged despite taking place between March 8, 2024, and March 23, 2024.
This was announced by the Coordinator of the African Union Sport Council, Dr. Decius Chipande, at a press briefing in Accra on Tuesday.
Dr. Chipande told pressmen that the Council after an inspection tour had received assurances from the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Local Organising Committee (LOC) of the games that all the facilities that would be used during the event would be completed and tested by December 2023.
Executive Chairman of the LOC, Dr. Kwaku Ofosu-Asare, said athletes and officials were expected to arrive in the country between March 5-7, 2024, for the games.
He also stated that 12 of the proposed 24 competitive sporting disciplines that will be honoured during the games will serve as qualifiers for the 2024 Olympics following approval by the President of the Association of African Sports Confederations (AASC), General Ahmed Nasser and the President of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA), Mustapha Berraf.
They include; athletics, basketball 3×3, badminton, beach volleyball, cycling and judo. The rest are swimming, tennis, table tennis, triathlon, volleyball and wrestling.
Dr. Ofosu-Asare also expressed appreciation to President Akufo-Addo and all stakeholders for their invaluable support to the success of the games.
From The Sports Desk