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.
He or she is a person whose material wealth is valued at more than one million dollars, pounds or euros, or better still, a person whose wealth is counted in millions. In much the same way, a person who is worth more than one million new Ghana cedis can be called a millionaire in Ghanaian terms. One million Ghana cedis may not be worth much but it is still a lot of money for many people in Ghana who cannot dream of ever having such money. For the purpose of this article, I will define a Ghanaian millionaire as someone whose total assets are worth at least ten million GhC.