Samuel Takyi Ready To Represent Ghana At Olympics Qualifiers
Ghana’s Olympic bronze-medallist Samuel Takyi has announced his return to Ghana to pursue his dream of winning a gold medal at the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
It is not known how but the professional boxer announced his return on social media platform X.
“Am coming back to represent my country Ghana 🇬🇭 again team S T all the way to Paris, Here we come for Gold this time.🥇🏅🏆🎺🎻🥊”
The 22-year-old has been longing for a gold medal following his bronze victory in Tokyo in 2020 but it seemed impossible after he failed to secure a place on the national amateur boxing team for the ongoing African Olympic qualifiers in Dakar in Senegal.
According to the President of the Ghana Boxing Federation (GBF), Bernard Quartey, Takyi was excluded from the Black Bombers team because he failed to voluntarily avail himself for the training and justifiers for selection into the team.
“Takyi will not be featuring at the Senegal competition because he was not part of the team that trained towards the competition, but I will invite him to start training for the next two qualifiers next year,” he told Graphic Sports.
This meant that the boxer could join Black Bombers who failed to secure Olympic slots during the September 9 –15 in Dakar at the qualification events in Italy in February and Bangkok in May to give it a second shot.
Samuel Takyi’s bronze in 2020 was Ghana’s first Olympic medal since 1992.
