Category: Highlights

After all felicitations in their home towns and New Delhi, epoch making Indian men’s and woen’s hockey teams were at ‘home away from home’ yesterday. Its at Bhubaneswar, the teams were flown in, where the ...

By NANDAKUMAR MARAR MUMBAI: Adrian D’Souza noticed two changes in goalkeeper friend P R Sreejesh, use of stick under the post and as a person. The two custodians, senior and junior teammates at national hockey ...

K ARUMUGAM He came. He saw. He transformed. It took almost three years for the Dutchman Sjoerd Marijne to bring our women to what they are now. The target, primarily, was getting into the quarterfinals ...

By MERVYN FERNANDIS, Triple Olympian Every athlete has a dream to represent their country at the Olympics which comes once in four years. Considering the standards set at that level, qualifying is in itself an ...

Twitter exploding. Prime Minister Narendra Modi phoning Indian captain Manpreet and head coach Graham Reid to offer congratulations. Millions in front of their TV sets all over the country and millions more gazing at their ...

Harmanpreet’s drag-flicking prowess has been a key factor in India’s bronze medal-winning campaign. The sturdy defender reflected on what achieving a podium meant after a pulsating come-from-behind victory over Germany for the prize. “Our hard ...

Graham Reid, head coach of the Indian men’s hockey team, reveals he wears a pacemaker. Given the last few pulsating moments of the bronze medal match against Germany, there would have been anxiety for his ...

Tears of pain had flowed in torrents for 41 years. Today Indian hockey fans eyes’ were awash with joy as their team in blue overcame Germany 5-4 after a thrilling fightback to win the Olympic ...

Sjoerd Marijne, India women’s hockey head coach, the greatest takeaway from the lost semi-final to Argentina on Wednesday was the reality of playing an Olympic semi-final. “The girls had never played in one before. They ...

It was a big day for the Indian sports. Indian women hockey, for the first time in their chequered history, played a semifinal. The girls probably aware that they are on the threshold of making ...