India was once the world champion and Olympic Champion in Hockey. In fact, India has the most glorious achievements in Hockey. However, for the last 20 years, Indian hockey has been suffering and the performance of Indian national hockey team has become from bad to worse. Now, sometimes even Indian national team can not qualify for world cup or Olympic hockey. This has created a lot of unhappiness among many people.
AFP wrote:
India's Olympic chiefs on Monday sacked the country's controversial field hockey federation following a bribery scandal and failure to qualify for the Olympics.
Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president Suresh Kalmadi said an ad-hoc committee will be named soon to manage the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) that was headed by supercop Kanwar Pal Singh Gill since 1994.
The head of Indian hockey federation was Kanwar Pal Singh Gill and he had been in this post since 1994. Now, Indian Olympic Association has removed Mr. Gill from his post and they have put an add-hoc committee to carry on day to day business.
This is not a good sign for Indian hockey. Indian government should give more importance to this sport and Indian government should allocate more budgets for hockey.
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