“There is some talk about the jersey (of our hockey team)”.
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In a sperate mail on August 1, Oltmans had written (sic): “Thank you very much to offer your TV to our team to be able to watch the Hockey matches during the Olympic Games”. Now we are trying to send a better kit.
When no action was taken even a day after the complaint, Hockey India president Narinder Batra took to social media and posted photos of team players struggling for basic needs at the Games Village and alleged that “you do not believe in acknowledging or replying to mails from Hockey India”.
India have produced some of the finest hockey players in the history of the game including “The Wizard” Major Dhyan Chand who is widely regarded as the greatest hockey player of all time. PV Sindhu is seeded 9th and came be a unsafe opponent on her day.
The Indians are eyeing their first ever double-digit medal haul riding on the sheer number of qualifiers this time, standing at 118 now after sprinter Dharambir Singh and shot-putter Inderjeet Singh were told to stay back after being caught in the dope net. Swimming is also interesting although we are nowhere near to the best in that game. The best Indian coach, foreign coach, foreign training and equipments and good monthly salary, coach fee was also hiked from Rs 50,000 to Rs 2 lakhs. “In London, we had a television for athletes in the lobby where you’d find hardly anyone sitting before it”, the athlete added.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had recently exuded confidence that the Indian contingent would put up a grand show at Rio.
Ireland are first-timers at the Olympics as they made the cut finishing third ahead of Britain and Belgium in the European Championship, and in the World League they beat teams like Pakistan and Malaysia and Roeland Oltmans’ boys will have to score an early goal. “No”, said an athlete on the condition of anonymity. The shoping will be done by the Indian Embassy in Brazil. “All small issues are being attended to by our officials in consultation with IOA, Federations and Rio Olympic Committee”, said Goel.
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Four years after setting up the gold standard in Beijing, Bindra crashed to a 16th place finish in 2012 London, but this time the shooter from Zirakpur, who is known to pay minute attention to details, has created Rio-like settings at his home. These documents and letters demonstrate that there was a series of letters exchanged between the British Olympic Association, the International Olympic Committee and the India Office discussing prospects of Indian participation at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.
