Hockey Features
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- Jul 14, 2021
- Santosh Rao
Tokyo Olympics: The Indian men's hockey team, once unbeatable, is now not a surety for a medal any more although the current contingent raises some hopes of a podium finish after over 40 years.
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- May 25, 2020
- Press Trust of India
Balbir Singh's relationship with the sport goes way beyond the goals and the trophies. It was like a timeless love affair, one that he described quite vividly in his autobiography.
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- Aug 17, 2018
- Sylvester Tamang
India has had a dominating show at the Asian level and would like to reiterate that.
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- Aug 16, 2018
- Santosh Rao
India would be looking towards reinforcing their Asian credentials with another gold medal.
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- Dec 17, 2015
- Siddharth Ranjan Das
The story of Abdul Samad from Bhopal is an inspirational one as he has overcome many difficulties in his path of playing national hockey for India.
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- Apr 29, 2015
- Amitoj Singh
It's a Sunday morning and you're about to start a game of hockey and suddenly a familiar face approaches you and politely asks 'can I get a game?'. You're stumped on a hockey turf because you don't know how to answer that question when a former Indian Hockey Captain is the one asking you that question.
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- Apr 06, 2015
- Tazeen Qureshy
Andy Hayward's goal in the dying minutes denied India a chance to split points with New Zealand in the Azlan Shah hockey tournament.
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- Sep 19, 2014
- Agence-France Presse
The new rules will see the traditional two halves of 35 minutes each replaced by four 15-minute quarters, with additional 40-second time-outs before penalty corners and after goals have been scored.
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- Jun 09, 2014
- Press Trust of India
India bounced back well to beat Malaysia 3-2 after losing back-to-back matches to start with and Sardar Singh's men would draw from the new-found self-belief when they come face-to-face against the marauding Australians.
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- Aug 07, 2012
- Press Trust of India
There is a dearth of quality hockey players in India and the present national team possesses a "bunch of mediocre" individuals who are just satisfied to be Olympians, feel yesteryear stars of the game.