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Indian women's hockey: An Olympic story of grit, camaraderie and family

Hockey India has done what many others have failed to for a long while - give equal funding to teams of both sexes in preparation for the Olympics

Indian women's hockey team, Olympics
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For women’s hockey in the country, this result may well turn out to be a watershed moment, one that takes this team from a feel-good story — something that is in equal parts patronising and condescending to such talented, hard-working elite athletes — to one where more is demanded, aspired for and provided for, too.

Vaibhav Raghunandan New Delhi
While comparisons are inevitable, in this case “life imitating art”, “the real following the reel”, the Indian women hockey team’s “Chak De” of Australia in the quarter finals of the Olympics is a good time to pause and reflect on all that has happened. If the men’s dismissal of Great Britain — what with the buildup involving a full-on invoking of the colonial past — was fist-pumping passion and confirmation that, yes, maybe #ItsComingHome, the women’s response to that has been significantly bigger. In scale, shock value, achievement, astonishment and everything in between.

Human beings play sports, but confirmation of success

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