Saturday, 27 May 2017

Reliving Indian hockey’s glory days: On this day in 1928, India won its first Olympic gold

The country’s eighth and last gold in hockey came in the 1980 Moscow Olympics.


1936 Olympic team / http://ift.tt/2qm3YsH

India first sent a team to the Olympics in 1920 but it was only eight years later that a hockey team took part. The year was 1928 and the venue Amsterdam. Indian hockey’s fairy-tale run started from that year with the team winning the gold in the final, which was played on May 26.



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