By Ajeyo Basu New Delhi: Familiar failures in major tournaments after promising build-ups and musical chair-like rotation of coaches. These were the major highlights of Indian hockey in 2018. The Indian team had started the year in rousing fashion, winning a four-nation tournament in New Zealand which also included Japan[Read More…]
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Indian hockey team shoots for ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’
The Indian hockey team has shot for an episode for the quiz show “Kaun Banega Crorepati” hosted by Amitabh Bachchan. The megastar called the sportsmen as the country’s “brand ambassadors”. Amitabh on Monday night shared a photograph of himself along with the players of the Indian hockey team from the[Read More…]
Roelant Oltmans sacked as India hockey coach
Indian hockey team’s head coach, Roelant Oltmans, was sacked on Saturday following a three-day meeting of the Hockey India High Performance and Development Committee. Over 24 members attended the meeting, including Harbinder Singh, B.P Govinda, V. Baskaran, Thoiba Singh, Dr. A.B. Subbaiah, Dr. R.P Singh, Joydeep Kaur, Sardar Singh, P.R[Read More…]
Is India prepared for Rio Olympics 2016?
Unlike other countries’ athletes and players participating in the Rio Olympics 2016, our Indian players don’t just have to compete with world’s finest Olympians; they also have to bear the bureaucracy in sports. Since the onset of Rio Olympics 2016, India has been grappling with its bureaucratic structure’s incapability to[Read More…]