In the 1964 Tokyo Games, Shankar Laxman executed number of brilliant saves to help India win hockey gold The venue is Tokyo; the year 1964; the date 23 October and the occasion, the Olympic hockey ...
New Delhi, July 27: They had the gift to mesmerise opponents and crowd alike. Few know that Dhyan Chand and his teammates had the guts as well to defy the Fuhrer at his backyard. In ...
It is widely reported that the hockey Selection Committee will be convened in Delhi on 31st as a part of process of selecting chief coach and staff for managing senior national team. It was reliably ...
In the early 80s, even after India won the Moscow Olympics, around the time India was out of the semis of the home, Bombay World Cup and getting beaten 1-7 by Pakistan in the Asian ...
New Delhi: Prabhjot Singh is the only hock ey player to be recommended for the Arjuna Awards by the Indian Olympic Association’s ad-hoc panel this year. “Prabhjot was the only one who had approached us ...
Suresh Kalmadi and Randhir Singh released the ‘Olympics: the India Story’, jointly written by Boria Majumdar and Nalin Mehta on Monday, the 21st July 2008 in New Delhi. The release was followed by a lively ...
The FIH exists, but it is branded as World Hockey. In every forum their officials sport jerseys wearing the name World Hockey — where both the words are artistically connected by a hockey stick in ...
NEW DELHI, July 19: Indian Olympic Association President Suresh Kalmadi today hailed the junior Asia Cup win as “revival” of Indian hockey and said it had chalked out a roadmap for the ultimate target of ...
Hyderabad: Clearing the air of suspicion over the hockey World Cup and the future of Ric Charlesworth, International Hockey Federation (FIH) president Els van Breda Vriesman said India will be hosting the World Cup in ...
Japan threatened late but the South Koreans warded off it with their characteristic nonchalance, as the Korean set up final summit clash against the hosts. Wearing Jersy No. 6, nam Hyun Woo scored all of ...