100 Days.
The painful 100 days. Friday marks one hundred days since Chile Disaster – that our team won’t be there at Beijing Olympics.

Eventful one hundred days, with mixed feelings and progress. s2h recollects events that that made up the past 100 days since Santiago Shame.

March 10:

India fails to qualify for the Beijing Olympics, Chief Coach Carvalho resigns

March11:
Public anger on a large scale, media take up hockey seriously, politicians pitch in to demand KPS Gill’s resignation.

March 11:
Most of the former Olympians support Joaquim and wants him to continue

March 12:
KPS Gill seeks two more years to set things right in a television interview

March 15:
The IOA supports IHF in a press conference in Delhi

March 19:
Many Olympians including Balbir Singh Sr., MP Ganesh, Zafar Iqbal visit KPS Gill’s residence to extend support to KPS Gill.

March 20:
KPS Gill forms a new Selection Committee with MP Ganesh as its chief

March 21:
Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports sign a belated contract with Richard Charlesworth

March 21:
KPS Gill rejects Joaquim Carvalho’s resignation and refuse to appoint Charlesworth in his place after an informal EC Meeting at his residence.

April 7
MS Gill replaces Mani Shankar Aiyar as the Union Sports Minister

April 18:
Joaquim Carvalho takes a team for Australia tour
April21:
Aajtak television broadcasts a sting operation, involving IHF Secretary taking bribe

April 22:
KPS Gill announces Inquiry Panel to probe the sting

April 23:
MS Gill places hockey back into the priority list of the government

April 24?:
FIH writes a strong letter to IOA asking for change in the IHF.

April 27:
FIH President gives a strong interview in Kazan against Gill and Jothi; PTI flashes it on national scale

April 28:
IOA dissolves the IHF and announces new Selection Committee.

May 6:
Ad-hockey Committee’s composition announced

May 8-18:
India wins silver at the Azlan Shah Cup

May 12:
KPS Gill manages to cancel Indian junior team’s Poland tour

May 26:
Asian Hockey Federation confirms the Ad-hoc Committee will organize the Junior Asia Cup in Hyderabad.

June 18:
Final camp for Junior Asia Cup starts in Hyderabad