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s2h Team Twenty years on, Vasudevan Baskaran does not allow the trauma of missing the Olympic semifinal by a whisker to rankle him. As head coach, he watched from the dugout on this day at the ...
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 ...
It’s perhaps only a myth but it says much about the magical skills of Dhyan Chand, acclaimed as the best hockey player in history. A statue of ‘The Wizard’ in Vienna Austria, the story goes, depicted ...
India’s glorious hockey journey – a medal in Olympics from 1928 to 1980 except once in 1976, including eight gold – would not have started but for a friendship between two British Colonels who were ...
It was a long mystery. Scarcely anybody knew of Col Bruce Turnbull, the first President of the newly formed Indian Hockey Federation (IHF). The formation of the IHF took place 95 years ago and was ...
Today marks a momentous occasion for Indian sports. On this day, 72 years ago, India won its fourth Olympic gold medal. But it was the first for independent India. Field hockey was at its best in ...
GULU EZEKIEL If not for the dreaded Covid-19 the Tokyo Olympics would have been in full swing, marking 100 years since India’s official participation in the Games of the Modern Olympics. Now the sporting world ...
Montreal, Canada, July 30, 1976. A day on which an Olympic hockey final, unimaginable to most, was played. Defending champions West Germany were nowhere in sight. Nor were India and Pakistan, the traditional powers who shared ...
India defeated European Champions Spain 4-3 in the final of the 1980 Moscow Olympics 40 years ago on this day.
“I have very vivid memories from our Final against Pakistan in the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. It was a tense Final and the Umpire had warned both teams that if there were to be any ...
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