K. ARUMUGAM It’s Olympic time! And, once again, Indian field hockey is under the scanner. The cliché, question and doubt — I don’t see any difference between them – is whether Indian hockey will regain its ...
K ARUMUGAM Mere formalities went awry. And huge hurdles turned out to be a cakewalk. This is how the story of reaching Tokyo from New Delhi panned out. I planned to leave for the airport ...
s2h Team On the flight to Tokyo on Saturday night, Mandeep Singh was visibly tired. A member of the Indian team that left Bengaluru where it trained in the last month, he and his teammates ...
s2h Team Moving from a remote village named Lulkidihi-Bahamnibahal of Odisha’s Sundargarh district’s Balisankra block to becoming an Olympian, Deep Grace Ekka has indeed come a long way. “It’s a great feeling to get the ...
SATISH SHARMA Birendra Lakra, heaved a sigh of relief on June 18, 2021, when he was named among 16 players bound for the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics. A man who has been an unbreachable wall ...
MEN – Time as in Japan. (Reduce 3 hrs 30 min for IST) SATURDAY 24 JULY 2021 09.30 Japan Vs Australia 10.00 New Zealand Vs India 11.45 Netherlands Vs Belgium 12.15 Argentina Vs Spain 18.30 ...
K ARUMUGAM Vasudevan Baskaran, captain of the 1980 Moscow Olympic gold medal winning team has waited in vain for decades for India to deliver another medal of any colour. But he hasn’t lost hope as ...
1. INDIA VS AUSTRALIA, MONTREAL 1976 Play-off for semi-final place: India 1 Australia 1, a.e.t 1-1. Tiebreaker: 4-5 Battered and bruised by defeats at the hands of The Netherlands (1-3) and Australia (1-6) India were ...
K. ARUMUGAM Indian men’s hockey team is all set to land on the land of the Rising Sun. In exactly two weeks, they will be playing their first match at Oi Stadium in Tokyo. While ...
By OLYMPIAN LAZRUS BARLA Indian Olympic teams of the past raised hopes only to fail the country. I wish this time the team reverses the trend when they participate in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Expectations ...