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K ARUMUGAM Vasudevan Baskaran, captain of the 1980 Moscow Olympic gold medal winning team has waited in vain for decades for India to deliver another medal of any colour. But he hasn’t lost hope as ...
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 ...
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 ...
K ARUMUGAM He weighed 75 kg, carried a heavy stick weighing 28 ounces. His bullet-like strikes sounded the backboards like thunderclaps. Weaponry and ferocity combined to make him a match-winner. He is Devinder Singh Garcha ...
By MERVYN FERNANDIS The Olympic Games men’s hockey is always a close affair. Holland, Germany and Australia dominated in most of the competition for quite some time. Change was seen at the Rio Olympics 2016 ...
ERROL D’CRUZ The image of Eliza Nelson nee Mendonca chaired by jubilant teammates will never fade for those fortunate to witness the watershed moment in Indian women’s hockey. Those scenes of unbridled joy followed Eliza captaining her ...
By NANDAKUMAR MARAR Winning at the Olympic Games brings with it applause and anxiety. For debutant M M Somaya on the men’s hockey squad at 1980 Moscow, the end of the gold medal match against ...
BY NANDAKUMAR MARAR Gavin Ferreira recalls playing hockey with Leander Paes when the Indian tennis ace, competing in the men’s singles category at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, visited the hockey team in the Village. ...
SATISH SHARMA Defender Amit Rohidas will be a man to watch at Tokyo Olympics. He is a trier, tireless all rounder and above all a match winner on his days. However, with his Olympic selection ...
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