May 17, 2005: Underscoring the point that he had less than required time to prepare the team for the Azlan Shah Cup, the newly appointed coach Rajinder Singh Jr. wished, in his characteristic jocularity, that ...
“Our players are not more skillful than the top Europeans” asserted Brigadier HJS Chimni, star of gold winning 1975 World Cup team. “Artificial turf is not the reason for our downfall”, thundered triple Olympic gold ...
New Delhi: August 27, 2004: In an interview to national telecaster Doordarshan Sports channel, KPS Gill, president of the Indian Hockey Federation, said that he failed to motivate Indian coaches and as such will stick ...
Injuries and tiredness have taken a huge toll in Athens. India are not the only team to have suffered. They took their toll on semi-finalists Spain and Germany so that we are left with the ...
The Rise and fall of Indian hockey The Golden Beginning CALL it a bundle of sentiments or a patriot. My eyes always fill with tears at every instance the three words India, Hockey and Olympics ...
1932 Los Angeles: Now, for the first time in sporting history an Indian team was to participate on American soil. United States of America by then had become the benchmark for excellence in sport, a ...
HOCKEY was invented in the valleys of Persia and Egypt. But as these two civilizations began to expand the sport, like many other factors in many other walks of life, began to be pitch forked ...
Riding is always a riddle in some metros. You need to think you own the road, choose your line, without caring for the other road-users. You, especially if you’re driving an auto-rickshaw or a two-wheeler, ...
New Delhi: She is just three years old and cannot make out anything. She just wants to see her father smiling — all the time. Her elder sister, who is 12-year now, knows that her ...
Dear Mr KPS Gill, AS a hockey lover my heart brims with joy looking at the amount of interest that has been created in the last couple of days over the National team’s medal chances ...