Comments on: Indian Hockey-Reality bites ? http://alokedeep.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/indian-hockey-reality-bites/ diary of a wanderer Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:33:40 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: alokedeep http://alokedeep.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/indian-hockey-reality-bites/#comment-7 alokedeep Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:33:40 +0000 http://alokedeep.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-7 Sachin, You are absolutely right & I hope that this Olympic qualifier loss just does that. But there are more reasons to this than just the shift to Astroturf-which are responsible for this state of our National game.It pains me even more as I have been a third generation hockey player myself. Sachin,
You are absolutely right & I hope that this Olympic qualifier loss just does that.

But there are more reasons to this than just the shift to Astroturf-which are responsible for this state of our National game.It pains me even more as I have been a third generation hockey player myself.

]]> By: Sachin http://alokedeep.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/indian-hockey-reality-bites/#comment-6 Sachin Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:59:13 +0000 http://alokedeep.wordpress.com/?p=24#comment-6 Hockey has changed, all the gold medals we won on grass, today hockey is played on Astroturf. Since the introduction of AT. we haven't even manage to reach the semi-finals of an international hockey tournament. U are right when u say that the Indian hockey has been going down hill for a long time now, But i guess this Olympic loss can act as a tipping point in Indian hockey & result in sweeping changes in the way we played our hockey and administrated it..... Hockey has changed, all the gold medals we won on grass, today hockey is played on Astroturf. Since the introduction of AT. we haven’t even manage to reach the semi-finals of an international hockey tournament. U are right when u say that the Indian hockey has been going down hill for a long time now, But i guess this Olympic loss can act as a tipping point in Indian hockey & result in sweeping changes in the way we played our hockey and administrated it…..

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