Ghana has been handed a huge boost after sprinter Vida Anim resumed full scale training ahead of the 2012 London Olympic Games.
Vida, 28, took part in Team Ghana’s first training session at the Brickfield Track and Field facility in Plymouth on Wednesday 11th July2012, two weeks after sustaining a hamstring injury at the African Athletics Championship in Benin.
The German based athlete was taken through her paces by former national athlete Leo Myles-Mills, without showing any signs of her earlier injury.
There were fears that Vida could not make the Olympic team following the injury, but team coach, Leo Myles-Mills told www.liquidsportsghana.com is confident that Vida will be fit in time for the Games.
“Vida’s injury is a whole lot better. Though she did not compete at the rlg Grand Prix, she went through intensive training. She Is at 85% with her speed right now.”
“So within three weeks, she will be back on top. She is only running the 200m which is later during the Games and she will make it.”
It will be recalled that, Anim, who won a silver medal in the 200m event at the 2011 All Africa Games, limped off the track in the 100m Heat after just 30 meters in Porto Novo last two weeks.
Anim later needed the help of two medical assistants to make it back into the dressing room.
Ghana is being represented by three athletes, four boxers, one weightlifter and a judoka in London.
