New Delhi: The airport employees on the Indira Gandhi Worldwide airport in Delhi gave a heat welcome to the departing Indian males’s and girls’s hockey groups. Each the groups had been heading for Tokyo to symbolize India on the Olympics.
It was heart-warming to see the gamers being honoured on this style. India’s hockey workforce has been most profitable on the Olympics over time. India’s males’s workforce has gained eight gold medals with hockey. The final gold medal got here within the yr 1980.
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India’s Males and Girls Hockey workforce arrive at IGI Airport, Delhi.
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This type of reception from the IGI employees and most people will certainly increase the arrogance of India’s gamers. The Indian males’s hockey workforce will start their Olympic marketing campaign on July 24 in opposition to New Zealand of their first Pool A match.
“The workforce is totally excited. They’ve all labored actually exhausting for this second and it’s time to convert the sacrifices made over the past couple of months and years into fascinating ends in Tokyo,” Graham Reid mentioned to ANI.
As I’ve at all times mentioned, our intention will probably be to carry out greatest match-by-match. The workforce is mentally ready to face the challenges on and off the sector in Tokyo,” he added.
However, the ladies’s workforce who’ve certified for Olympics for a second consecutive time will play their first match on July 24 in opposition to the Netherlands. The workforce will play a complete of 5 league matches. Germany, Britain, Eire and South Africa would be the groups that India will play in opposition to.