‘You can protect a lead. Its modern hockey. Its a game of seventy minutes”. Said, Graham Reid, Indian men’s national team’s chief coach, 24 hours ago, on asked about India conceding goals goals to New ...
MM Somaya, captain of the Indian team at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, knows the value of winning an opening match. The former right-half reflected on a job well done by the Indian men’s team in ...
S2H Team P.R. Sreejesh gift wrapped and presented his team three precious points from a 3-2 victory over New Zealand in the 2020 Men’s Olympic hockey opener in Tokyo on Saturday. The talismanic goalkeeper playing ...
The first hockey match of the much awaited Tokyo Olympics starts within 24 hours. In the run up to the Olympics, we honoured most of our accomplished Olympians by unearthing their rare photos and presenting ...
s2h Team The Indian men waited long for this day. They were hungry to play a match, be it practice or a full encounter. They needed to get the feel of the turf and their ...
K. ARUMUGAM It’s Olympic time! And, once again, Indian field hockey is under the scanner. The cliché, question and doubt — I don’t see any difference between them – is whether Indian hockey will regain its ...
K ARUMUGAM Mere formalities went awry. And huge hurdles turned out to be a cakewalk. This is how the story of reaching Tokyo from New Delhi panned out. I planned to leave for the airport ...
s2h Team On the flight to Tokyo on Saturday night, Mandeep Singh was visibly tired. A member of the Indian team that left Bengaluru where it trained in the last month, he and his teammates ...
s2h Team Moving from a remote village named Lulkidihi-Bahamnibahal of Odisha’s Sundargarh district’s Balisankra block to becoming an Olympian, Deep Grace Ekka has indeed come a long way. “It’s a great feeling to get the ...
A doughty defender who sometimes forays into the midfield, Adam Dixon will lead Great Britain’s challenge to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Dixon, a veteran of 284 international appearances, made his debut in 2009 and has ...