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Hungry, new-look Team India set to kick off qualifiers Biswajyoti Brahma, TNN NEW DELHI: Still tortured by their failure to qualify for the Beijing Olympics four years ago, a much-chastened — and hopefully, much-improved — ...

Hockey is turning blue! Hockey fans, world over, will be in for a surprise when they tune in for the London Olympic Games. Before one gets excited, please note that it has nothing to do ...

Indian women out to replicate 1980 feat Y.B. Sarangi The only moment of Olympic glory for the Indian women’s hockey team was its participation in the mega event at Moscow in 1980. Thirty-two years on, ...

Honour at stake for India YB Sarangi The scenes could be spectacularly diverse for sure at the end of the Olympic qualifier at the National Stadium here. Lowered heads, drooping shoulders and sticks dragged, if ...

I don’t have a fixed starting XI: Nobbs NEW DELHI: Chief coach Michael Nobbs on Thursday said there is no fixed starting eleven in the Indian men’s hockey team and all 18 players are good ...

Retirement made me more mature, says South Africa’s Pietie Coetzee Ritu Sejwal, TNN NEW DELHI: South Africa’s Pietie Coetzee had bid adieu to hockey in 2005 after the Champions Challenge to concentrate on her studies ...

Nobbs goes easy on practice to give players time to recover Biswajyoti Brahma, TNN NEW DELHI: Unlike other teams, they are not playing practice matches ahead of the London Olympics qualifiers, but the Indian players ...

It’s freeway ahead but beware of speedbreakers Navneet Singh, Hindustan Times Indian chief hockey coach Michael Nobbs looks on as players pose with the Asian Champions trophy. Going by the draw of the Olympic Qualifying ...

Army XI retain ‘Babu’ hockey trophy Defending champions Army XI, Bengaluru defeated Punjab National Bank, Delhi 2-1 in the final to claim the winner’s trophy of the 32nd All India KD Singh ‘Babu’ memorial hockey ...

WSH cash bonanza for Indians World Series Hockey (WSH) on Thursday announced a cash bonanza for the Indian hockey team members who have signed up for the league. Under WSH’s incentive campaign — Strive for ...