{"id":49547,"date":"2014-09-20T17:47:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T17:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=49547"},"modified":"2014-09-20T18:10:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T18:10:43","slug":"winners-at-2014-citi-business-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=49547","title":{"rendered":"Winners at 2014 Citi Business Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the companies that &#8220;bragged&#8221; about their sporting prowess, &#8220;walked the talk&#8221; at this year&#8217;s Citi Business Olympics at the Burma Camp leisure centre in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>Citi Investment company emerged overall winners after taking home four trophies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_7953.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49556 aligncenter\" alt=\"IMG_7953\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_7953.jpg\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_7953.jpg 675w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_7953-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some new entrants like Ernst and Young, Bank of Africa, Ghana Post, FHI360 among others were not intimidated by the regulars, and won some coveted trophies at the event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_7979.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49557 aligncenter\" alt=\"IMG_7979\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_7979.jpg\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_7979.jpg 675w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_7979-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ernst and Young (EY) won the scrabble competition for men, \u00a0FHI360 won the men&#8217;s swimming competition while Bank of Africa won the men&#8217;s basketball competition.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Sack race <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BizOlympics?src=hash\">#BizOlympics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yUM1fRAo3F\">https:\/\/t.co\/yUM1fRAo3F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Citi973\/status\/513381505562050561\">September 20, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_7975.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49558 aligncenter\" alt=\"IMG_7975\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_7975.jpg\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_7975.jpg 675w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_7975-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a> Meanwhile regular participants Ashfoam as usual managed to pick up a few trophies home. They won the women&#8217;s arm wrestling competition as well as the table tennis for men. <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_7899.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49559 aligncenter\" alt=\"IMG_7899\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_7899.jpg\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_7899.jpg 675w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/IMG_7899-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Grande Finale of lime &amp; spoon race <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BizOlympics?src=hash\">#BizOlympics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xlwLRNFlyN\">https:\/\/t.co\/xlwLRNFlyN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 97.3 Citi FM (@Citi973) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Citi973\/status\/513380855717584896\">September 20, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Below are some of the other winners:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Football &#8211; Citi Investment<\/p>\n<p>Basketball &#8211; Bank of Africa<\/p>\n<p>Swimming (Men) &#8211; FHI360<\/p>\n<p>Swimming (Women) &#8211; \u00a0Citi Investment<\/p>\n<p>Arm wrestling (Men) &#8211; Escort Group<\/p>\n<p>Arm wrestling (Women) &#8211; \u00a0Ashfoam<\/p>\n<p>Table tennis (Men) &#8211; \u00a0Ashfoam<\/p>\n<p>Table tennis (Women) &#8211; Ecobank<\/p>\n<p>Tennis (Men) &#8211; Slamson<\/p>\n<p>Tennis (Women) &#8211; Ecobank<\/p>\n<p>Scrabble (Men) &#8211; Ernst and Young (EY)<\/p>\n<p>Volley ball (women) -Legacy Capital<\/p>\n<p>Volley ball (Men) &#8211; Valex Lease<\/p>\n<p>Badminton (Men) &#8211; Travel Bureau<\/p>\n<p>Badminton (Women) &#8211; Unicorn<\/p>\n<p>50m dash (Men) &#8211; Nationwide Mutual Health<\/p>\n<p>50m dash ( Women) &#8211; Ghana Post<\/p>\n<p>Tug of war (Women) &#8211; Ghana Post<\/p>\n<p>Tug of war (Men) &#8211; Westec<\/p>\n<p>Snooker (Men) &#8211; NHIA<\/p>\n<p>Sack race (Men) &#8211; Goldman Capital<\/p>\n<p>Sack race (Women) &#8211; Ashfoam<\/p>\n<p>Lime and spoon (Women) &#8211; \u00a0Citi Investment<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the companies that &#8220;bragged&#8221; about their sporting prowess, &#8220;walked the talk&#8221; at this year&#8217;s Citi Business Olympics at the Burma Camp leisure centre in Accra. Citi Investment company emerged overall winners after taking home four trophies. Some new entrants like Ernst and Young, Bank of Africa, Ghana Post, FHI360 among others were not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":49555,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[43,3,38],"class_list":["post-49547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-ghana-news","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49547","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}