Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong First Ghanaian in Winter Olympics
They call him the Snow Leopard, but Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong has an even better title he's happy to hold: the first Ghanaian to head to the Winter Olympics. The downhill skier will be carrying the flag of Ghana during the 2010 Winter Olympics, the first from his snowless country to do so.
The Snow Leopard, Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong, will be the first Ghanaian to compete in the WInter Olympics. (montrealgazette.com)
The Ghanaian learned to ski while studying in the United Kingdom. Born in Glasgow, Nkrumah-Acheampong grew up in the capital of Ghana, Accra. But during his four years studying, he learned to ski on artificial slopes, before moving to the thrill of real snow.
Now, thanks to work with his coach Dave Jacobs, Nkrumah-Acheampong has accumlated the points with the World Ski Federation needed to qualify for the Olympic Games. Thanks to sterling performance on the slopes in Italy this winter, Nkrumah-Acheampong now has a guaranteed slot at Vancouver this year.
So what are his goals? “I want to beat some countries," says Nkrumah-Acheampong in an interview with the Montreal Gazette. "I want three or four countries to finish behind me. I want somebody else to be last. At my first world championships, I was last. At the next world championships, two people finished behind me. I was so proud because they came from countries with snow.”
The Snow Leopard, Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong, will be the first Ghanaian to compete in the WInter Olympics. (montrealgazette.com)The Ghanaian learned to ski while studying in the United Kingdom. Born in Glasgow, Nkrumah-Acheampong grew up in the capital of Ghana, Accra. But during his four years studying, he learned to ski on artificial slopes, before moving to the thrill of real snow.
Now, thanks to work with his coach Dave Jacobs, Nkrumah-Acheampong has accumlated the points with the World Ski Federation needed to qualify for the Olympic Games. Thanks to sterling performance on the slopes in Italy this winter, Nkrumah-Acheampong now has a guaranteed slot at Vancouver this year.
So what are his goals? “I want to beat some countries," says Nkrumah-Acheampong in an interview with the Montreal Gazette. "I want three or four countries to finish behind me. I want somebody else to be last. At my first world championships, I was last. At the next world championships, two people finished behind me. I was so proud because they came from countries with snow.”
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