Hockey greats Vasudevan Baskaran, M M Somaya and Mervyn Fernandis relive India's gold medal-winning campaign at the Moscow Olympics in 1980.
Vinesh Phogat's appeal against her disqualification from the Olympic finals, this time till August 16, prolonging the Indian wrestler's wait for a resolution.
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Pakistan's retired hockey international Rehan Butt, who was appointed coach of the national team taking part in the 12th South Asian Games, turned out as a player in the team's first two matches, including Monday's victory over hosts India.
Harmanpreet Singh won the men's Player of the Year award and Gurjit Kaur was recognised as the best player in the women's section. Veteran P R Sreejesh and Savita Punia won the best goalkeeper awards in the men's and women's section, while young striker Sharmila Devi (women) and Vivek Sagar Prasad (men) were adjudged best rising stars.
Under the contract, the sports channel will telecast all international matches to be played in the country over the next three years.
The team management in London was told that Sardar should come to Leeds for questioning by the Yorkshire police.
Hockey India on Saturday sacked national coach Roelant Oltmans after a string of unimpressive outings at the international level.
The FIH is planning an exhibition tournament of Hockey 5s next year but has ruled out the possibility of the format replacing the traditional 11-a-side contest in the Olympics.
Three years ago, India returned from Tokyo with seven medals, and it is only natural that a double-digit performance is now desired in Paris.
India swept the International Hockey Federation's annual awards on Wednesday, claiming all the top honours, based on a voting system which was lambasted as a "failure" by men's Olympic champions Belgium, prompting the FIH to say that it would try to figure why some associations did not cast their ballot.
Three Sher-e-Jalandhar players banned The IHF slapped a three-year ban on forward Tejbir Singh and goalkeepers Kamaldeep Singh and Maninder Singh for 'unruly and disgraceful behaviour' during the Premier Hockey League final.
Legendary Indian men's hockey team goalkeeper PR Sreejesh believes that Vinesh Phogat deserves a medal after reaching the final of the women's 50kg wrestling competition in Paris
'Due to the ongoing pandemic and lockdown, we the sports bodies are unlikely to get any sponsorship and hence we may find it very difficult to restart our activities effectively'
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IHF president K P S Gill assured the former cancer-striken India player more aid after the India-Pakistan Test series.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
K Jyothikumaran has been appointed as one of the four judges for the elite nations hockey tournament.\n\n
The IHF chief said the National championship will be held in Nov-Dec this year.
Indian Olympic Association president Narinder Batra defended football's exclusion from the Asian Games contingent and justified the decision of including lesser known sports like pencak silat, saying they are potential medal winners and there is no place for "also rans" in the squad.
In 2015 when Indian the women's team qualified for the Rio Olympics after a gap of 36 years, it was Rani who had played a key role in the decisive victory against Japan.
The Manipur girl will captain the women's hockey team for the Afro-Asian Games and Asia Cup.
The Olympics-bound hockey team beat VFL Bad Kreuznach 13-3 and Suaduwahl Club 10-1 in practice matches on Sunday.
Australia and France made the quarter-finals of the Hero FIH Junior Men's World Cup after registering contrasting victories in their respective Pool B matches today at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium in New Delhi on Sunday.
Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) dropped plans to host a four-nation international tournament before the 2010 World Cup after getting lukewarm response from nations invited for the tournament due to the security situation in the country.
Sports Minister Anurag Thakur on Saturday refused to involve himself in the boiling controversy over wrestler Bajrang Punia returning his Padma Shri.
If you don't have power in a game you are masters of, the world will walk all over you, notes Shekhar Gupta.
They will take part in a procession in New Delhi to protest against the functioning of the Indian Hockey Federation.
The 30-year-old blamed coach Rajinder Singh for his omission four-nation tournament in Japan and the fitness camp in Barog.
The rejection of Vinesh's appeal means India's tally from the Paris Olympics will be of six medals which includes one silver and five bronze.
Cracking the whip on the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), the Sports Ministry on Friday suspended the Olympic body till the time it reverses the decision to appoint the scam tainted duo of Suresh Kalmadi and Abhay Singh Chautala its Life Presidents.
The IHF said he will continue till the 2006 World Cup.
Sachin Tendulkar inspired me to make comeback after CWG snub, says Sardar
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday.
Barely days after quitting as chief coach of the national men's hockey team, Terry Walsh has expressed a willingness to return to India provided Hockey India shows some "desire" to work out a "viable solution".
The Indian Boxing Federation might be in trouble following its termination by the International Boxing Association (AIBA), but Sports Minister Jitendra Singh assured the boxers that their training would not suffer and would be provided with all the required facilities.
India are now atop the leaderboard with five points from two games, but the Manpreet Singh-led side conceded a point to the Netherlands after drawing (during the regulation time) the second match of the contest on Sunday.
Indian men's hockey team chief coach Paul van Ass on Monday claimed that he has been fired by Hockey India following his alleged public altercation with federation president Narinder Batra.
In an encouraging development for the Indian women's hockey team, all the squad members are set to be included in the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) when the review committee will identify a core group for the government-funded programme, next month.
