Ghana’s Chef de Mission for the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, Sahnoon Mohammed arrived in Gold Coast, Australia yesterday to finalise Team Ghana’s preparation towards the games.
While in Gold Coast, the CDM is expected to visit the games village today for a soft opening of the games village for the various CDMs before the official opening on Sunday, March 25, 2018.
According to the Brisbane Times, over 6000 athletes entering the 2018 Commonwealth Games village near Southport will first follow the purple brick road to glory.
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he purple bricks will take them first through their athletes’ entrance – through a screening process similar to an airport – then to their accreditation centre, before they find their rooms in one of six residential zones.
The 29-hectare site just screams Queensland in the very nicest way, with the residential villages called Rainforest, Reef, Outback, Beach, Surf and Sunset.
The rooms are like a mid-priced holiday unit. The single beds are comfy, the quilt has an Indigenous logo, the bathrooms and showers seem to work, there is a small television and basic tea- and coffee-making facilties.
There is an international food hall, gymnasium and athlete recovery rooms, a poly-clinic that covers everything from optometry to pregnancies to accidental injuries, saunas (up to 80 degrees) and ice baths (down to 12 degrees), weight rooms, special services for wheelchair athletes and people with prosthetics and a drug-testing centre completing both drug and blood tests.
Some like star sprinter Yohan Blake have already arrived to acclimatise before the competition.
It will generate $2 billion for Queensland and $1.7 billion for the Gold Coast economy and they are expecting 100,000 new stories – like this one – to be produced from April 4 to 15 from 3500 journalists.
Sahnoon would also hold brief meetings with the Commonwealth Games – Ghana secretariat in Gold Coast to get first-hand information on happenings in camp since their departure from Ghana about a week ago.
