[ad_1] BHUBANESWAR: Tucked quietly in the West Stand of the Kalinga Stadium, with no fancy tournament ribbon around his neck, a Sikh gentleman appeared no different than the many others from his hockey-loving turbaned community seated around him on Tuesday. Forty-one years ago, at the Wankhede Stadium in Bombay, now …
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[ad_1] BHUBANESWAR: Defending champions Belgium and three-time winners Australia booked semifinal spots in the FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup after getting the better of Spain and New Zealand in their respective quarterfinal matches on Tuesday.While Australia toiled hard for a 4-3 win over Spain in the first quarterfinal, Belgium did …
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[ad_1] BHUBANESWAR: During two defining moments in the history of Belgian hockey, the conductor of the orchestra which produced the blockbuster symphonies — gold at the 2018 World Cup and 2020 Tokyo Olympics — was head coach Shane McLeod. The champion coach, who took a 16-month break after the Tokyo …
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[ad_1] BHUBANESWAR: India’s 48-year wait for another Hockey World Cup title will cross five decades. The sad part of India’s history in the tournament has gotten sadder. While it puts into perspective what it takes to win the World Cup, Sunday at the Kalinga Stadium was also about the current …
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[ad_1] BHUBANESWAR: “Thankfully, I didn’t buy tickets for the rest of the games.” The disaster that unfolded at the Kalinga Stadium on Sunday night has left a mark that won’t easily be erased, if it does at all, from the mind of fans. The above remark on social media by …
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[ad_1] BHUBANESWAR: Away from all the limelight, playing a major role in Belgium’s tremendous success in recent years in the world of hockey is their video analyst Emily Calderon. From helping the Red Lions win the World Cup in 2018 to the gold in Tokyo Olympics, Calderon has assisted Shane …
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[ad_1] India vs New Zealand Hockey World Cup 2023 Live Score Updates: India 0 – New Zealand 0, second quarter IND vs NZ Hockey Live Score: A below-par show against debutants Wales denying them a direct quarterfinal berth, hosts India would look to address their attacking woes against a plucky …
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[ad_1] BHUBANESWAR: The Indian hockey team would like to emulate what happened in Raipur on Saturday. Albeit on an entirely different pitch altogether, an Indian team shocked the living daylights out of a team from New Zealand on home soil. It was the cricketers who did that on Saturday and …
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[ad_1] BHUBANESWAR: With the scoreboard pressure clearly telling after England’s comfortable win over Spain, India succumbed and were almost held by debutants Wales, until Akashdeep Singh rescued the hosts with a stunning goal and skipper Harmanpreet Singh finally opened his goal account off a drag-flick for a 4-2 win at …
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[ad_1] BHUBANESWAR: The most obvious question since India’s first match of the ongoing Men’s Hockey World Cup has been: “Why hasn’t the team been able to convert any of its penalty corners?” To make matters worse, drag-flick expert and captain Harmanpreet Singh missed a penalty stroke as well against Spain. …
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