A two-day seminar organised by the Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG) for media practitioners ended on Wednesday in Accra.

The seminar dubbed “Covering Multiple Sports Events” was meant to update and keep Sports Journalists abreast with the requisite information and knowledge about the various sporting disciplines that the nation will be taking part at the impending Ninth All Africa Games scheduled for Algiers, Algeria.

About 60 participants drawn from both the electronic and print media were taken through eleven sporting disciplines by resource persons from the respective Associations.

The participants were taken through covering and reporting on Football, Volleyball and Disabled Sports, Table Tennis, Tennis, Cycling, Karate-Do, Weightlifting, Amateur Boxing, Kick-Boxing and Badminton.

The journalists were briefed on the rules and regulations of each of the disciplines, technicalities, preparations needed before a major multiple sport event, sourcing for information at such Games and identifying priority areas during such events.

Mr Ackah Anthony, President of SWAG in his closing remarks encouraged the participants to take advantage of such opportunities, which he described as vital to their professional development.

He said that this was the first of three seminars that his outfit had planned for the year and hinted that the subsequent ones would be geared towards the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and the Ghana 2008 African Cup of Nations.

He urged the participants to let the message gained to reflect in their reportage as part of educating and entertaining the sporting public on current requirements of the sporting disciplines.

Mr Anthony commended Stanbic Bank, sponsors of the event and appealed to other corporate bodies to support such programmes to update and enable the members get in touch with current trends in their profession.

Source: GNA