Ghana’s Rose Yeboah has set her sights on winning a medal at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

The high jumper left Ghana for Paris on Wednesday night for her maiden global showpiece.

Rose secured her qualification with an incredible 1.97m jump at the NCAA Championship in Eugene in June.

In an interview with JoySports’ Fentuo Tahiru Fentuo before her departure, she expressed optimism about improving and ultimately winning a medal at the Olympics.

“Qualifying for Olympics is such a great experience and I am really happy to see myself there to compete for my country Ghana.

“Looking at my performance I put up at the NCAA, I feel like I will do much better since it’s going to be a competition among ourselves.

“Everyone should expect me qualifying to the finals and seeing myself on the podium. It will be such a great experience if at least I make it to the finals and get a medal.”

Rose has impressed in recent months for Ghana, having clinched Gold medals in high jump at the African Athletics Seniors Championships and the 2023 African Games.

The Olympic Games runs from July 6 to August 11.

Elaine Thompson-Herah, the two-time Olympic champion in the 100m and 200m, will miss the Paris Olympics with an Achilles injury.

The 31-year-old Jamaican, a five-time Olympic gold medalist, sustained the injury at the New York City Grand Prix on 9 June and had to be carried off the track.

Thompson-Herah – the only sprinter other than compatriot Usain Bolt to win multiple Olympic titles in both the 100m and 200m – was aiming to defend her 100m crown after choosing not to race in the Jamaica 200m trials.

She said a “small tear on my Achilles tendon” ended her chances of competing at a third Olympics.

“It’s a long road but I am willing to start over and keep working and to make full recovery and resume my track career,” Thompson-Herah wrote on Instagram.

“I am hurt and devastated to be missing the Olympics this year but at the end of the day it’s sports and my health comes first.”

Jamaicans have won the past four Olympic gold medals in the women’s 100m.

Thompson-Herah won gold in the 100m and 200m in Rio in 2016 and defended her titles in Tokyo five years later.

She won a fifth Olympic gold in Japan as part of Jamaica’s 4x100m relay team.

After recently hosting the 2023 African Games, the $145m Borteyman Sports Complex has come under the spotlight after a video surfaced online of a church service being organised in one of the halls at the complex.

The hall served as the venue for multiple indoor sports disciplines during the near month-long games held in Accra three months ago after a year’s delay partly due to the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a viral video posted to the social media site, X (formerly Twitter), people could be seen conducting a church service inside one of the Domes of the multipurpose facility.

This has led many to fearing the worst considering the long list of plush sports facilities that have decayed over the years due to poor maintenance.

The complex which boasts multiple tennis courts, an Olympic-sized swimming pool and a handball court, is per the words of Sports Minister Mustapha Ussif, set to be converted into a Sports University after the African Games.

The likes of the Essipong Stadium in Sekondi and Aliu Mahama Stadium in Tamale were built to host games at the 2008 AFCON but have deteriorated over the years with the Essipong Stadium practically unusable due to the terrible state of the facility.

Video of a terrible pitch at the Aliu Mahama Stadium surfaced online this weekend during the BAC Group All-Star Festival that had Black Stars players Andre Dede Ayew and Fatawu Issahaku feature in.