Former Olympians Gurbux Singh, B P Govinda, Aslam Sher Khan and Surinder Singh Sodhi were named in a seven-man team.
Hockey greats Vasudevan Baskaran, M M Somaya and Mervyn Fernandis relive India's gold medal-winning campaign at the Moscow Olympics in 1980.
'The feeling that we were Olympic champions only dawned on us when we reached India.'
'What was previously buried in the sands of time now gets buried by the weight of banality,' notes Sreehari Nair.
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