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.
As with many ex-colonies in Africa, the official language of Ghana is the colonial language, English. Nine languages have the status of government-sponsored languages: Akan,Dagaare/Wale, Dagbane, Dangme, Ewe, Ga, Gonja, Kasem, Nzema.However, two dialects of Akan, Twi and Fante, although not government-sponsored, are also widely-spoken in Ghana.Hausa is widely used as a lingua franca by Muslims in Ghana.ther languages are: Dagbani, Frafra, Twi, Akan, Kyerepan, Ewe and Ga. Ghana's main language is actually English but it has over 100 different language such as Twi Ga and Ewe. There is no official language de jure but English is de facto the official language.