{"id":233848,"date":"2026-05-20T16:48:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-african-championships-favour-ashe-opens-up-on-ordeal-in-ghana\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:48:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:48:44","slug":"ghana-african-championships-favour-ashe-opens-up-on-ordeal-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-african-championships-favour-ashe-opens-up-on-ordeal-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: African Championships &#8211; Favour Ashe Opens Up On &#8216;Ordeal&#8217; in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\"><em>Although Ashe eventually missed the podium in the men&#8217;s 100m final, he still helped Nigeria salvage success by winning silver in the men&#8217;s 4x100m relay<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Nigerian sprint star <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/worldathletics.org\/athletes\/nigeria\/favour-oghene-tejiri-ashe-14888403\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Favour Ashe<\/a><\/strong> has revealed the chaotic circumstances that disrupted his campaign at the just concluded African Championships in Athletics in Ghana, admitting that a series of off-track problems left him mentally drained and ultimately cost him a shot at an individual medal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">The 24-year-old arrived at the championships as one of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605200465.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Ashe eventually missed the podium in the men&#8217;s 100m final, he still helped Nigeria salvage success by winning silver in the men&#8217;s 4x100m relay Nigerian sprint star Favour Ashe has revealed the chaotic circumstances that disrupted his campaign at the just concluded African Championships in Athletics in Ghana, admitting that a series of off-track [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":233849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,4380,54442,7540,24897,4508,4509,257,6975,15112,254],"class_list":["post-233848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-ashe","tag-championships","tag-favour","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-opens","tag-ordeal","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}