January 27, 2022, India mourns the death of hockey legend, Charanjit Singh, who captained the national team at the gold-winning Tokyo Olympics in 1964. Singh was a native of Una, Himachal Pradesh, where he took his last breaths before losing battle to cardiac arrest that followed prolonged age-related illness. He was to turn a year…
Smelling a difficult competition at the Asian Games this year, Manpreet Singh, Indian men’s hockey team captain, says the FIH Pro League will be an ideal platform to try out new associations for the big-ticket contest in Hangzhou. To your recollection, Manpreet had led the men’s team to the Olympic Bronze after a desperate wait…
It was March 25, 1927, when Leslie Claudius was born in Bilaspur. An affectionate footballer, Leslie had imagined the least to become one of the legendary hockey names in India. He and noted player Udham Singh are the only two Indian players to win four Olympic medals in field hockey. The legend has helped India…
Indian Hockey players Rupinder Pal Singh and Birendra Lakra were astonished when Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended appreciation for their contribution to the sport. Both have promised to give back to the game seeing PM’s fondness for sports. “Overwhelmed to receive this letter from our Hon’ble PM @narendramodi ji. His constant support to athletes has…
Kashmir will soon be put on the international map of hockey with the valley getting its first astroturf hockey stadium. With a cost of Rs 50 million, the stadium is built in the southern district of the valley, Pulwama, and will soon be open to hockey players. The prospective players are joyous with the opening…
It was a sad moment for me when my name was dropped off from the list of the 16-member squad for the Olympics, said defender Varun Kumar while expressing his disappointment on not getting onboard for the most celebrated games. Although he considers himself fortunate to be called up as an alternate player because of…
Giving magnificent players like Ahmad Sher Khan, Inam-ur-Rahman, Syed Jalaluddin Rizvi and Sameer Dad, Bhopal has now been deserted of hockey players for the past two decades. The recently concluded Tokyo Olympics have brought back the glory to the sport with India winning the Bronze against Belgium 4-3. But with no players from the central…
The Naveen Patnaik led administration has recently announced that the state government will sponsor Indian Hockey teams for ten more years. The current sponsorship will end in 2023. The recent performance of the national teams in the Tokyo Olympics was remarkable and every countryman was praising the Manpreet and Rani led teams for their outstanding…
After a wait of 41 years, India won a medal in Hockey at the Olympics. In today’s mettlesome match, India beat Germany 5-4 and made the country proud. Another medal at the Olympics. India’s total medal tally is now at four, 3 Bronze, and 1 silver. The country is still hoping to get its first…
Day 10 in the Olympics, the heat was all over the podium in the Oi hockey stadium. After a wait of 41 years, the Indian women hockey team reached the quarterfinals and took against Australia on Monday. But the journey doesn’t end here as the national team scripted history by defeating world champion Australia. India…