Due to unseasonably warm weather and resultant poor snow conditions, many of the Alpine skiing events were moved back, giving Vonn additional time to heal. On February 17, in her first event, Vonn won the gold medal in the downhill at Whistler Blackcomb, beating longtime U.S. rival Julia Mancuso by 0.56 seconds and becoming the first American woman to win Olympic gold in downhill.
Spanning a land mass of 238,535 km, Ghana is bordered by the Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, Togo in the east and the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean in the south. The word Ghana means Warrior King in the Soninke language.
Think about it. Is the term Ghana not like Ahenkro in Akan parlance? The term Gana or Ghana in the language of the people of ancient Ghana meant Ahenkro, Omanhene, Wura or Overlord depending upon the context. In fact it most parallel Ya Na in the Dagarti language today. Technically Ghana and Togo means the same. Togo was derived from the corruption of the word Togbe (i.e. Ewe for Nana) as in Togbeland through Togoland to Togo. Ghana could in the same sense have started as Nanaland, and finally Gana or Ghana. All the tribal groupings in Ghana use one form or the other a variant of the word NA or NANA to refer to a chief or old people except perhaps the Ewes.