Simranjeet Singh

NEW DELHI: Rupinder Pal Singh wanted to retire at the peak of his career. He did so. In September last year, after India's Tokyo heist to reclaim the long lost position on the Olympic hockey podium, the drag-flicker made the call. "That was…

NEW DELHI: Veteran drag flicker Rupinder Pal Singh, who recently came out of retirement, will lead India at the Asia Cup as Hockey India on Monday announced a 20-member team for the upcoming tournament in Jakarta. The prestigious event,…

BHUBANESWAR: Gregory Stockbroekx maps the business engineering scene in Belgium these days. Until 2016 though, he used to engineer ways to get past opponents over a 100-yard pitch with a hockey stick in hand. That mantle since then has…

TOKYO: Belgium won their first Olympic men's hockey title, beating Australia 3-2 in a penalty shootout after the final finished in a 1-1 draw on Thursday. The sides were locked in a close fight through much of the match, with Belgium…

CHANDIGARH: Hockey legend Balbir Singh Sr lived his life for the sport and would have jumped in joy had he been alive to witness the national team's historic bronze-medal winning feat at Tokyo Olympics, his daughter Sushbir Kaur said on…

Indian had won their previous Olympic hockey medal so far back that none of the class of 2021 should have felt the burden of past failures. Still, those reverses were hard to shake off in a nation that showed with celebrations for…

TOKYO: "It's a rebirth, that's it," declared India's ecstatic goalkeeping great PR Sreejesh after emerging as one of the stars of the men's hockey team's historic Olympic bronze medal here, confident that the feat will help produce a new…

Simranjeet Singh (17th, 34th minutes) scored a brace, while Hardik Singh (27th), Harmanpreet Singh (29th) and Rupinder Pal Singh (31st) were the other goal getters for India.  The Indian men's hockey team rewrote history as it claimed…

Hockey in India is not just a sport; it is an emotion. And watching India at the Olympic Games is not for the fainthearted. The quarterfinal contest against Great Britain on Sunday was no exception. One needed steel to stay glued to the…

Often, chief coach Graham Reid’s match face is inscrutable. On Tuesday, however, he allowed himself a smile and couple of fist pumps. The expression was more than just a celebration. It was an endorsement of how far his team had come in…