Football was the only sport Issah knew existed. ADVERTISEMENTThat season-best throw won silver in the Women’s Wheelchair Shot Put F57 final and delivered Ghana’s first medal of the 2026 Glasgow Commonwealth Games, the country’s opening moment on a medal table that had, until then, stayed blank. Issah has been doing this for years, quietly, far from the attention a Commonwealth Games brings. Her medal also lands inside a Commonwealth Games unlike any that have come before it. This is a leaner Commonwealth Games than that one.