The Guinness Ghana sponsored 2-hour programme, features three national sports icons namely 1992 Olympic Games bronze medalist, Nii Odartey Lamptey, Patrick Yaw Obeng (2015 All Africa Games double silver medalist) and taekwondo player Terrance Tetteh Asare, who will share their career and life experiences with the students.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”H1jGtVVaPbw2c1wMxPYHR3NQNSTdsr0H”]In addition, the Director of Sports at the University of Ghana Legon (UG), Dr. Bella Bello Bitugu, will bring his rich experience to bare on the programme by educating the students about UG\u2019s sports policy and career paths for sportsmen\/women.<\/p>\n
Consistent with its aim of promoting the spirit of Olympism among students, there will be separate presentations by the Brazil and Japan Embassies on the upcoming Rio 2016 Olympic Games and Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n
Making it Happen comes months after liquidsportsghana.com successfully introduced the first ever Ghana athlete of the year award dubbed, \u201cLiquid Sports Ghana-Ethiopian Airlines Athlete of the Year award on 29th<\/sup> January, 2016.<\/p>\n The Ghanaian-based website aims at promoting sports and using sports as a development tool.<\/p>\n Theme<\/strong><\/p>\n Themed on the philosophy of Olympism as a way of life, \u201cMaking it Happen\u201d aims to exalt and combine in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind.<\/p>\n Blending sport with culture and education, \u2018Making it Happen\u2019 seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.<\/p>\n The programme consists of presentations, video presentations, a question and answer and photo shoot sessions.<\/p>\n Background<\/strong><\/p>\n Liquid Sports Ghana is a Ghanaian-based website which aims at promoting sports and using sports as a development tool.<\/p>\n The website was established in March, 2012, to cater for the growing need to provide quality coverage of Ghana sports with particular emphasis on less funded sports.<\/p>\n The site\u00a0seeks to bridge the gap in coverage of Ghana sports by providing documentaries, stories and features on the general issues affecting sports and creating role models for the youth.<\/p>\n Its\u00a0most recent project involved partnering Ethiopian Airlines to organise the first ever Ghana athlete of the year award dubbed, \u2018Liquid Sports Ghana Athlete of the Year Award which was won by Ghanaian athletes John Ampomah and Janet Amponsah.<\/p>\n “As part of our\u00a0vision to\u00a0use sports as a tool for development, we\u00a0helped promote and assisted with the organisation of the first ever Dan-deVan National Paralympic Games on 29th<\/sup> November and the subsequent celebration of World Disability Day on 3rd<\/sup> December, 2015.<\/p>\n Liquid Sports Ghana also partnered the Ghana Athletics Association and Ethiopian Airlines to provide coverage of the 2015 IAAF World Championships in Beijing-China.<\/p>\n We secured a sponsorship package with Lucozade Energy drink to cover the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: Liquid Sports Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Liquid Sports Ghana is set to hold\u00a0the first of its kind Olympism themed seminar dubbed \u201cMaking it Happen\u201d to mentor students. The maiden edition will be held \u00a0at the Accra Academy Senior High School on Thursday, 10th March, 2016. The Guinness Ghana sponsored 2-hour programme, features three national sports icons namely 1992 Olympic Games bronze […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"IMG-20160307-WA0000\"](\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG-20160307-WA0000-1024x379.jpg\")
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