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Ski with a leopard

Friday 26 June 2009

Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong and the Ghana Ski Team unveil a new event to raise funds.

(c/o bbc.co.uk)

Ghanaian downhill ski racer Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong has just announced his latest venture in a bid to raise funds for his 2010 Olympic vision.

The Olympic Snowleopard Challenge is to take place at the newly opened Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead on 15 August. The event is designed to help gain sponsorship for Kwame whilst also giving children and adults the chance to have some racing in a parallel slalom.

Kwame learnt to ski just 6 years ago and this March qualified to compete in the 2010 Vancouver winter Olympics which take place in February. He will become the first ever Ghanaian skier to compete at the winter Olympics taking part in Slalom and Giant Slalom events along with competitors from all over the world.

He has been supported heavily by Base Camp Group, a British Ski Company, who sent him to Meribel to live and train. At the very end of the winter season his FIS points in Slalom were just low enough for him to qualify for the competition.

Earlier this month Kwame launched a new initiative to raise money for his trip by selling advertising space on his cat-suit which he will race in for the Olympics.

But for now Kwame is back in the UK arranging this latest event. It is hoped that this added presence will help to raise more funds for his Olympic trip whilst also bring local children to The Snow Centre that would otherwise never be given the chance to visit.

SkiTV.co.uk were at the opening of The Snow Centre in May — watch Juliette Dyke’s Hemel report. To find out more about The Snowleopard Challenge and get involved on 15 August visit www.thesnowleopardchallenge.ghanaskiteam.com.