Category: OLYMPIC ANECDOTES
K ARUMUGAM He weighed 75 kg, carried a heavy stick weighing 28 ounces. His bullet-like strikes sounded the backboards like thunderclaps. Weaponry and ferocity combined to make him a match-winner. He is Devinder Singh Garcha ...
By NANDAKUMAR MARAR Winning at the Olympic Games brings with it applause and anxiety. For debutant M M Somaya on the men’s hockey squad at 1980 Moscow, the end of the gold medal match against ...
By NANDAKUMAR MARAR Darryl D’Souza is of the firm opinion that playing the Olympic Games changed him from inside. The men’s hockey forward, a member of the Indian team at the 1992 Barcelona Games, does ...
BY NANDAKUMAR MARAR Gavin Ferreira recalls playing hockey with Leander Paes when the Indian tennis ace, competing in the men’s singles category at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, visited the hockey team in the Village. ...
We are happy to present the SEVENTH and the LAST of the DIL BAHRA’s signature column on early Indian hockey history. The author has won our hearts for pioneering such a painstaking effort, sparing it ...
Why was Jaipal Singh, not living in India at the time, selected to lead India’s Olympic hockey challenge in 1928? What were his credentials that prompted the Indian authorities to look up to him for ...
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 ...
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 ...
I recall very clearly when researching Sikhs in the Olympic Games back in 2005, I was informed by Pat Rowley, a renowned journalist and a good friend of mine, that Joe was the oldest living ...
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