GTV Sports Plus will host top Jamaican athlete, Asafa Powell on Friday evening to share his experience as an international sportsman on a special show on Ghana’s preparations towards the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Powell is married to a Ghanaian wife, who relates the GOC President, Mr. Ben Nunoo Mensah and he wishes to see Team Ghana shine at the world’s biggest sports festival.

He was supposed to visit Ghana, but due to health and safety circumstances caused by the Covid- 19 pandemic, he had to reschedule his plans.

Also featuring on the programme are Samuel Takyi and Suleman Tetteh, the two boxers who have qualified to the Games in Japan and Black Bombers coach Ofori Asare who was at the 2012, 2016 and will be at the 2020 Games.

The Chef Du Mission for Team Ghana, Mr. Michael Aggrey, President of Ghana Golf Association, President of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) and Ben Nunoo Mensah will also be on the programme as well as the Ghana’s Ambassador to Japan and other former Olympians.

The programme is put together by the Communications  Committee of the GOC in collaboration with GTV Sports Plus.

By Sammy Heywood Okine