The Indian Men’s team has qualified for the last eight of the hockey tournament in Rio Olympics 2016, following a high-voltage draw between fellow Pool B nations Argentina and Germany on Thursday. Soon after the Men in Blue went 1-2 down to the Netherlands in a cliffhanger of a contest, the defending champions found themselves held by the South American side to a 4-4 tie at the Olympic Hockey Center in Deodoro, thereby confirming India’s quarter-final berth.
Making this achievement all the more special is the long wait of 36 years since India last crossed the group stages in the Moscow Summer Games of 1980 which, incidentally, had fetched the 8th Olympic Gold for the country. From an Indian perspective, the past few editions of the Olympics have been far from satisfactory, with the failure to qualify for Beijing 2008 for the first time ever being the lowest point in their Olympic history
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By karan Arora mohali
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