Author: stick2hockey
We have long been telling that it was the bureaucracy in the Sports Authority of India, that troubled Richard Charlesworth, driving him to dead end. We have got a solid proof for this. For long ...
Corrections: It has been brought to the notice that neither JB Roy, President of Bengla Hockey Association nor Abhijit Sarkar, Corp. Comm. Chief of the Sahara India Pariwar, did attend any meeting with IHF Ad-hoc ...
Book of the week: Olympics: The India Story Boria Majumdar and Nalin Mehta HARPERCOLLINS RS 695 PP 505 By K. Arumugam Getting adequate funding to send Indian teams to the Olympics used to be a ...
Olympics: The India Story by Boria Majumdar and Nalin Mehta (HarperCollins Publishers India; 505 pages, illustrated. Price: Rs. 695). For long we tend to think that sports functioned in splendid isolation. ‘Olympics: The Indian story’, ...
Balkrishan Singh differs from others hockey legends portrayed so far. Dhyan Chand to Md. Shahid all returned to routine life after retirement while Balkrishan continued his tryst with hockey – as a coach. He is ...
Charanjit Singh’s name was not in the Indian Hockey Federation’s probables list for the 1960 Olympics. But his superlative display of talent at the Bombay Gold Cup, the Aga Khan Gold Cup and the National ...
The venue is Tokyo; the year 1964; the date 23rd October and the occasion, Olympic hockey final. Five minutes into resumption of play, India tastes a goal through Mohinder Lal. It ignites the fire in ...
Anglo-Indians, barely a million population in the colonial days, contributed immensely towards hockey taking its root in the Indian sub-continent. Many of the successful domestic teams were exclusively manned by them with only a sprinkling ...
Hockey suffered the most after the Partition in 1947. Lahore region that gave 7 of 18 Berlin Olympics team members, went to Pakistan. The Anglo-Indian lot (9 out of 16 in the 1928 Olympics) left ...
Suresh Kalmadi, Chairman, Ad-hoc Committee, surprised today when he announced appooiontment of Ajit Pal Singh as Chairman of Selection Committee, replacing Aslam Sher Khan. Ironically, this announcement was made in a press conference convened to ...
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