how can India and England play off in a qualifier? there are very few good teams in hockey and eliminating a strong team before the olympics is just plain stupidity.
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by Rahul Patel on Mar 09, 2008 10:53 AM Permalink
India is not one of the top teams in field hockey anymore, why media hypes the team as a medal prospect every Olympics I don't know, it should focus on areas where India maybe has medal prospects, like weightlifting, shooting and track/field, possibly Tennis...field hockey, even if they qualify for Beijing, they will end up at the bottom
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by Champak on Mar 09, 2008 11:04 AM Permalink
Its just because of Cricket crazy people. I think indian hockey should play and win atleast good respect. Give 10% of money given to Cricket team to hockey team and look how they perform.
I hope Indian team will do well.
Chak de India
And do you think its hype? I think hype is in Cricket not in Hockey.
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by amey chawak on Mar 09, 2008 12:02 PM Permalink
money and fame comes together with victories .. remember cricket of 1975-80 to say till 85 where hockey was on top and much say cricket was going unnoticed .From that time cricket started to gain control ..they started more glamor because they started winning important cups like world cup, Champions cup etc and unfortunately we started to loose every thing in hockey ...
main thing was we never adopted to new western/European styles of hockey and unfortunately all hockey rules were made on power rather than skills..and we missed to compete and is not india only pakistan also suffered the same ..but still i think they are far better than us ( do you think they have more money ?? ) ....
I think Indian hockey should change and play more attacking /aggressive hockey and start winning some small tournaments ..and if they win medal money will pour in ..
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by ExpertOnEverything on Mar 09, 2008 02:44 PM Permalink
I agree with amey.. You can't keep loosing and say that Cricket is given more importance..First show us that you are capable of winning then money will automatically follow..
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by peekay on Mar 09, 2008 11:02 AM Permalink
your kind of people always have negative attitude. You people think only of cricket with huge amount of money why not indian cricket team is on the top of few ( just 10 or 15) crcket playing nations. A win against two or three country is hyped by the media like anything in cricket as if a world cup is won but when the question of hockey comes ur kinda ppl with negative approach come forward.
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by peekay on Mar 09, 2008 11:05 AM Permalink
I have the comparative figures of the total number of matches won and the percentage of matches won by indian cricket and indian hockey teams and you will be surprised to know tha the percentage win of hockey team is far above than the indian team
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by Prabhakar KRISHNA on Mar 09, 2008 12:30 PM Permalink
Show me the figures for last 10 years. The very fact that India has to play to qualify for Olympics speaks volumes. Let our hockey team win the WC or Olympics and then you complin about money. Nobody respects losers whether it is hockey or Cricket( remember our Team after W C in W indies)
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by peekay on Mar 09, 2008 12:42 PM Permalink
can u tell me how many countries play cricket. USA,China,Japan,Russia,Argentina,Korea,Canada they dont play cricket winning against few teams is no heroic deed
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by peekay on Mar 09, 2008 12:39 PM Permalink
give me ur e-mail id i will send u the comparative figures of matches won by indian teams in cricket as well hockey my id is peekay221@yahoo.co.in
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by Rahul Patel on Mar 09, 2008 11:38 AM Permalink
I said nothing about cricket...another overhyped sport...I am talking about Olympics...where Indian media obsesses over Hockey Team and ignores other athletes
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by peekay on Mar 09, 2008 12:37 PM Permalink
mr risy we gave so much of money to cricketers why did they not win the world cup since then ? and how can u expect from the hockey players to perform by paying meagre amount without n e facilities
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by peekay on Mar 09, 2008 12:34 PM Permalink
where do u find the mention of hockey team in media mR .Its all over cricket cricket and cricket
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by benicenow on Mar 09, 2008 09:43 AM Permalink
well we can save embarrassment from getting last place in olympics.........first our team need to do hard work.........money comes with win.....
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by Prabhakar KRISHNA on Mar 09, 2008 12:25 PM Permalink
You obviously do not know about Olympics. Strong teams have already qualified and India is competing for one rmaining morsel(place) (like Honkong or Holland , in cricket WC)
