Ghana will be the focal point of the African continent in March 2024 when it hosts the 13th African Games.
With only eight months till the big event, preparations are in full gear, and two significant locations have been chosen to host the games.
The principal venue for the games would be the University of Ghana, the country’s leading postsecondary school. It will include separate spaces for housing, eating, and exhibiting the participants’ incredible skills. A big facility in Borteyman will also be used for numerous sports during the athletic spectacle.
As the clock ticks down, event organisers, including the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Local Organising Committee, express confidence that both stadiums will be completely equipped to host the tournament in all its splendour.
Citi Sports recently went on a campus visit with the Vice Chancellor of the institution, the Sports Minister and Deputy, and the LOC Chairman. The trip intended to highlight the achievements of the committed engineers who are working diligently to build state-of-the-art sites and domes for the games.
The University of Ghana rugby pitch was the first destination on our informative trip.
Stakeholders were shown the progress made thus far, which included grass planting, change rooms, a media zone for journalists, and a VIP area.
We were escorted from the rugby pitch to the Dome Site, which is located in the Diaspora area of the University of Ghana campus.
The Dome site includes two tents with a capacity of 500 seats each that will function as the cafeteria, a 10-bed clinic, and a kitchen where the athletes will be given their daily meals.
We travelled from the Dome site to one of the hostels that were undergoing intensive renovations.
The renovations for the 2,900 rooms that will accommodate the projected 5,800 athletes, coaches, and staff for the 13th African Games in Ghana have begun.
Water heaters, air conditioners, door and washroom repairs, and new wardrobes, beds, and mattresses are among the renovation projects.
The next visit after the dorms was the University of Ghana Sports Complex, where we first stopped at the training zone, which was a duplicate of the main stadium.
Engineers guarantee that the grass will be properly groomed and tartan tracks will be laid in accordance with international standards.
We then proceeded to the main stadium via the main entrance. The car park is scheduled to contain 1,500 parking spaces and will be landscaped with plants.
We entered the stadium through the main entrance, where the turf was surveyed and comments were made.
With eight months to go, engineers, the Sports Ministry, and the LOC Chairman for the 13th African Games are certain that Ghana will achieve the schedule and that the facilities would be completed months before the competition begins.
Source: Citisportsonline.com
