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New Delhi, Jul 7: Veteran Indian hockey mid-fielder Ignace Tirkey felt the country badly needed to win an Olympic medal to revive interest in the sport. Hockey is a sport which India had ruled with ...

NEW DELHI: With no major triumph to show in the last 32 years, erstwhile hockey powerhouse India badly needs a medal in the London Olympics to revive the national sport’s interest in the cricket-crazy nation, ...

Bangkok, July 7 — India lost 2-5 to China and finished with a silver medal at the sixth Junior Women’s Asia Cup hockey championship here Saturday. This was India’s best showing in the tournament after ...

Having won their first Olympic hockey gold four years ago, the Indian hockey team found itself in unusual circumstances at the 1936 Los Angeles Games. But despite the bickering and groupism in the team, India ...

The 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam, when India won the gold, was the country’s first step towards ascending the hockey throne. It was at the insistence of the newly-formed Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) that the sport ...

It’ll be great to finish in the top six: Nobbs Vijay Lokapally The country is looking up to hockey chief coach Michael Nobbs to deliver in the Olympic Games. The Australian coach has pegged expectations ...

Hockey India cash awards for stalwarts BANGALORE: Hockey India will do a BCCI, in a much smaller scale though, when it honours 34 gold-winning Olympians in New Delhi on June 24. Balbir Singh (Sr) and ...

NADA panel reserves order in D’Souza case The three-member National Anti-Doping Agency panel headed by retired judge Dinesh Dayal on Wednesday reserved the order in the case of former India hockey goalkeeper Adrian D’Souza, who ...

‘Will make full use of training’ Having made the cut for Indian hockey’s final Olympics squad, Danish Mujtaba is happy to fulfill his family’s dreams and keen to make optimum use of the remaining days ...

A seasoned and balanced team for Olympics S. Thyagarajan Any dissection of India’s 16-member hockey squad for the London Olympiad is superfluous. Apart from minor changes, the core stays. The selectors have refrained from indulging ...