Beijing Olympics : Hockey Thread

[Mohsin]

Spain 3-2 Australia

WOW! What an end it must have been, i was flicking through and saw that Australia were leading 1-0 with only 17 mins to go!

What a result for Spain and how must it feel coming though the group stages like they did and then suddenly gunned down!

[OZGOD]

Oh no!!!

[12thMan]

Australia beats Holland 6-2 to take bronze
England wins against South Korea to take 5th position
Germany leading Spain 1-0 in final with 21 minutes left

[Saj]

A disappointing but not entirely unexpected performance by Pakistan.

It seems as though investment is needed in Pakistan hockey and its needed fast.

[12thMan]

In some domestic tournament a local Pakistan team defeated another local team by 24 goals

[OZGOD]

Massively disappointing performance from Australia to choke in the semi and let Spain get back in. Sure it's a bronze but it's an underachievement.

[PlanetPakistan]

Originally Posted by OZGOD Massively disappointing performance from Australia to choke in the semi and let Spain get back in. Sure it's a bronze but it's an underachievement.

AUS almost always underachieve in the olympics.

They were the favorites quite a few times including the 1984 LA olympics where they lost to PAK in the final.

[Asim2Good]

Pakistan team was inlcuded in Olympics only they needed 3 teams from Asia as we had lost in Asian qualifiers against China as well.
Now with this bad performance, we ll be out of next Champions Trophy as well

Hockey need some senior hockey players in PHF jsut like cricket does. at moment ex PM of Pakistan Mr Jamali is head of PHF, what he knows abt hockey?

heard on news on another day, they are having Dangal (wrestling) at Lahore Hockey Stadium coz it can have more ppl than other ground. and probably it ll destroy truff there in process