Over 150 swimmers across the country will battle for medals and certificates in a day’s swimming championship being organised by the Ghana Swimming Federation (GSF) in the Kumasi Metropolis.

The championship, which will be held at the poolside of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology on November 1, is not only designed to unearth talents across the country, but also to induce the youth to be interested in the sport.

Hundreds of people, mainly youth from the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) led by the parliamentary aspirant for the Suame Constituency,  Francis Dodovi, stormed the principal streets of the Garden City, last week for a fitness walk to begin what is expected to be a bi-weekly exercise to make voters healthy and alive for the 2016 general elections.

Accra Hearts of Oak’s desperate search for a new coach appears to be narrowing down to two expatriates, Swede Tom Strand of Medeama and German Ernst Middendorp, who steered the technical affairs of the club during the 2004/2005 season.

At a meeting of a three-member committee comprising board member Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, the club’s Managing Director Gerald Ankrah and Corporate Affairs Manager Joe Addo, the Medeama coach emerged as the favourite, according to a very reliable source.

Beleaguered General Manager of Kumasi Asante Kotoko, Samuel Opoku Nti, has what could be his last chance to right the wrongs of the season as he has promised to lead the club to defeat Greece top club, Veria FC, on November 15 to lower the curtains on the club’s 80th nanniversary celebration.

Kotoko are desperate to win back the confidence of their followers by ending the anniversary on a victorious note, having surrendered the Premier League title, MTN/FA Cup and the annual Otumfuo Challenge Cup in a disappointing season in which they finished in sixth position on the league log.

Ghana’s home-based Black Stars have stepped up the gear for this weekend’s important clash with their Ivorian opponents in what promises to be an uncompromising African Nations Championship (CHAN) qualifier at the Baba Yara Stadium.

The local Stars, who have been in camp for a number of weeks preparing for Sunday’s showdown, have to utilise their home advantage to win convincingly to make the return leg in Abidjan an academic exercise.

Head coach of the local Black Stars, Maxwell Konadu, is expected back in Ghana today to put finishing touches to the team’s preparations for their upcoming 2016 Championship of African Nations (CHAN) final qualifying round first—leg tie against Cote d’Ivoire at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi.

Konadu, who also doubles as the assistant coach of the Black Stars, is currently in Washington where he was on the bench with his boss Avram Grant for Ghana’s international friendly with Canada at the RFK Stadium last tuesday night but will take charge of the CHAN team when they play host to their Ivorian counterparts on Sunday.

This year’s Teshie District Presby Men’s Fellowship games comes off at the Teshie Camp 2 School ground on Saturday, October 17, from 8 a.m.

Groups taking part in the one day games are Peniel (Salem) Presby Men’s Followship, Aboma Presby Men’s Fellowship, Tsui-Bleoo Presby Men’s Fellowship, Nii Jorn Presby

The incumbent captain of the Accra Polo Club, Mr Kwakye Dopoah-Dei, has been re-elected for the 2015/2016 polo season at an Annual General Meeting (AGM) held on October 3.

The victory makes the president of the Ghana Real Estate Development Association (GREDA) an elected captain of the club for the fifth consecutive time.

Other members of the new executive committee are Wassem Helwani, Ricky Khubchandani, Justin Butah and George Agyemang.

The meeting discussed the development of polo and how to get the youth to take to the sport.

Members also deliberated on ways to reach out to corporate institutions for sponsorship of their programmes.

The new polo season took off last month with Ghana beating India to lift the Nkrumah-Nehru Cup at the Accra Polo Grounds.

Engineering and Construction firm, Taysec Group of Companies has pledged to sponsor cricket competitions in different age groups across the country to make the sport more appealing to the youth.

A former national athlete, Professor Charles Yendork, has instituted the first private athletics academy at Lashibi to train athletes for future national and international competitions.

He says he believes the new academy would help the Ghana Athletics Association (GAA) to select the best Ghanaian athletes who have been denied the opportunity to showcase their talent.

The former Ghana Athletics Association (GAA) chairman, George Lutterodt, says in spite of the vitriolic attacks on his personality and the ugly noises from the GAA, he still stands by his criticism of the GAA leadership for failing to win gold in any major competition after six years at the helm of affairs.

According to him, the leadership of the GAA had not displayed the requisite qualities that can transform our athletes into winsome side in major tournaments since they took over.

The national male and female hockey teams are set to participate in an Olympic Games qualifying  tournament  scheduled for Johannesburg,­ South Africa this month from the 23rd to 30th.

While the male team will fly to Johannesburg on Saturday, their female counterparts will leave the following day to enable them acclimatise in the city and get accustomed to the pitch before the tournament gets underway.

Beside the host country, Ghana will meet formidable teams from Egypt, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Uganda, Namibia, Kenya, as well as Zambia and Nigeria.

Days after the President ordered the immediate payment of $5,000 each to the Black Queens, who won gold at the All Africa Games in Brazzaville, Congo, the only other team which won gold medal at the event, the Golden Rackets, are also demanding their pound of flesh.

They are appealing to the President, John Dramani Mahama, to step in and help them retrieve an additional $5,000 due them for winning gold for the country in Brazzaville last month.

Ghanaian football legend, Reverend Osei Kofi, says he "wholeheartedly" supported the decision of the Black Stars to demand their bonuses before playing Portugal in the 2014 FIFA World Cup because the nation has persistently failed to honour promises made to the various national teams.

Rev Osei Kofi in an interview with the Graphic Sports last Friday at the launch of the golden jubilee celebrations of Ghana's triumph in the 1965 African Cup of Nations in Accra, lamented how the promise of houses made by Dr Kwame Nkrumah to each member of the victorious 18-man 1965 AFCON squad remained unfulfilled 50 years after he and his teammates defended the AFCON trophy in Tunisia.

Over 2,000 amateur cyclists thronged the Jubilee Park in Tamale to participate in the 20-kilometre Cowbell Bicycle Caravan aimed at promoting safe cycling in the Northern Region.

The race brought activities in the city to a standstill with no vehicular traffic in sight during the period.

After a ride of over two hours across various suburbs in Tamale, the participants, who included men, women and children from all backgrounds converged on their start-off point at the Jubilee Park for a raffle draw, which saw over 20 riders walking away with Cowbell-branded bicycles and products.