Tiny she may be but Maria Jose Granatto is a bundle of energy laden with electrifying skills in the Argentine forward line. Just five feet one inches tall, the 26-year-old is a key to Las ...
K. ARUMUGAM Indian men’s hockey team is all set to land on the land of the Rising Sun. In exactly two weeks, they will be playing their first match at Oi Stadium in Tokyo. While ...
By OLYMPIAN LAZRUS BARLA Indian Olympic teams of the past raised hopes only to fail the country. I wish this time the team reverses the trend when they participate in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Expectations ...
Legendary Keshav Datt, lone surviving gold medallist from the historic 1948 Olympic team, is no more. He died today 00.30 hours at his Kolkata residence. He was born 29th Dec 1925 at Lahore, now in ...
Gold medals and more gold medals with a few silver to go with. Lidewij Welten’s trophy showcase is stretched for space. The Dutch forward has collected two Olympic gold medals (Beijing 2008 and London 2012) ...
Having made her debut in 2006, Eva de Goede seems to be getting better with age. The 32-year-old captain of The Netherlands was named FIH Player of the Year, twice running (2018, 2019), and much ...
She’s been a scoring machine in the first two FIH Pro League campaigns. Olivia Merry, the tall New Zealand striker has been the scourge of defenses with goal tallies of 16 from 15 matches in ...
K. ARUMUGAM Numbers don’t lie if properly understood. A solid example of this truism is the numbers associated with India’s Olympic history which this article wishes to address. India has taken part 21 out of ...
England and Great Britain forward Sam Ward provides a whole new dimension to the Olympic credo of “Faster, Higher, Stronger”. In November 2019, playing an Olympic qualifier against Malaysia, Ward on a hat-trick got struck ...