{"id":333131,"date":"2010-02-17T22:57:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T03:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamati.com\/online\/?p=9580"},"modified":"2010-02-17T22:57:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T03:57:28","slug":"kwame-nkrumah-acheampong-%e2%80%93-the-snow-leopard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/333131","title":{"rendered":"Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong \u2013 The Snow Leopard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong, nicknamed the Snow Leopard, is on the prowl for a gold in the 2010 Winter Olympic games.\u00a0 He has drawn a lot of interest as an African skiing in the Olympics after his introduction to snow 5 years ago.\u00a0 The Alpine Slalom race is scheduled to take place on February 27, 2010.\u00a0 He will make history as the first Ghanian skiing in the Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n

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Quite the athlete, he also represented Ghana in the West African Student Games in tennis.\u00a0 Kwame took ski lessons when he got a job as a receptionist at a ski center.\u00a0\u00a0 In an interview with BBC, he stated that , “The only thing we [Africans] have to overcome is the cold.”\u00a0 He credits his family and his faith in God for his success.<\/p>\n

Dedicated to encouraging Ghanian youth to ski, he has set up the Ghanian Winter Olympic Association and is working on building an artificial ski slope in Akuapem Hills, Mamfe, Ghana.<\/p>\n

He supports Sabre, a British charity that builds schools in deprived areas of Ghana, and donates his spare money to a charity that is working on help save the snow leopard from extinction.<\/p>\n

To cheer him on watch the Winter Olympics on February 27, 2010 and let us see if he brings the Africa’s first gold in this year’s Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n


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