By Ranjit Dalvi Hockey should be developed wherever it is popular and has taken firm roots! Surprisingly India has failed to do this. This is the major reason for its downslide. With three consecutive Olympic ...
Lausanne, Switzerland: The International Testing Agency (ITA) welcomes the International Hockey Federation (FIH) as its newest partner in the fight for clean sport. The ITA will manage the entire anti-doping program of the Olympic team sport, the ...
Text and Images K. Arumugam When I entered the sprawling National Stadium campus before it was renamed after the hockey wizard Dhyan Chand, it seemed I was late. The morning practice under the watchful eyes ...
By K. ARUMUGAM The year 1920 marked an important phase for Indian hockey. The Beighton Cup, the oldest trophy outside of Europe, had celebrated its silver jubilee early that year. Named after the donor of ...
Uthra Ganesan SAI sources say process of finding replacements has begun The last time the Indian men’s and women’s hockey teams stepped out competitively was in February. The next time they will do so will ...
Indian women’s hockey, under-performing for considerable time and underrated even longer, thought to be subdued and submerged by their male counterparts, seems to have broken from the shackles. Now, they are in the forefront, talked ...
Graham Reid calls it the Groundhog Day syndrome. In the 1993 fantasy-comedy, Bill Murray wakes up every morning and realises he is reliving the same day over and over again. Reid has experienced something similar ...
Bengaluru, 29 August 2020: Khel Ratan Rani Rampal feels that the parent body giving equal importance to women’s hockey as that of men’s is crucial in her career, which is at its peak with the ...