FILE PHOTO: Skeleton – Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics – Men’s Finals – Olympic Sliding Centre - Pyeongchang, South Korea – February 16, 2018 - Akwasi Frimpong of Ghana competes. REUTERS/Edgar Su
(Reuters) - Ghana slider Akwasi Frimpong's coaches on Friday again asked the International Olympic Committee to reinstate continental quota spots in in bobsleigh and skeleton in time for next month's Beijing Games, saying anything less 'wipes out diversity'.
Frimpong and Nigeria's Simidele Adeagbo became the first African skeleton racers to compete at the Olympics in 2018 thanks to the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation's (IBSF) continental quota system.
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