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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 ...

Dhyan Chand — the incomparable artiste S. Thyagarajan The ‘Wizard’ epitomised the ethos of sport’s best traditions Few sportsmen of our time and perhaps only a handful in any era enjoy for generations the iconic ...

Hockey’s impact on the nation’s psyche S. Thyagarajan Touch and artistry perfected by the Asians have given way to aggression and athleticism in modern hockey. If the image is in a shambles today, the villains ...

Indian eves beat Japan 2-1 reach the final of the 6th Junior Asia Cup Championship in Bangkok on Thursday. India will meet China in the final. China beat Korea 3-2 in the other semi-final. It ...

BANGKOK: India set up a final clash with China in the final of the junior women Asia Cup Championship after they beat Japan 2-1 via a golden goal by vice-captain Poonam Rani in the semifinal ...

India has been a part of the modern Olympics movement almost since Olympics’s inception in the year 1894. Ever since India has been participating in the Olympics Games being organized quadrennially, starting with one athlete ...