The investment that laid down Indian hockey's road to Olympic bronze

Olympic success could mean uptick in corporate support as was seen during the brief Hockey India League

In the immediate aftermath of that frenetic game of hockey — defined perhaps by India doing to Germany what had often been done to them; coming back from a two-goal deficit — head coach Graham Reid was asked if he understood how much this medal meant to a country whose memory of Olympic triumph is three generations past. “I don’t understand... but I do,” Reid said. His wordplay is understandable. Indian hockey’s paradox is in its starvation of success and its support.

“It's all about the process,” former India forward Tushar Khandker says. “The medal is the end result. It’s