Pritam Rani Siwach backs India for Paris Olympics hockey gold

Apr 18, 2024

NEW DELHI: Previous Indian ladies’ hockey skipper Pritam Rani Siwach has communicated trust in the men’s group’s capacity to succeed at the impending Paris Olympics.

India, an eight-time champion in the game, finished a 41-year dry spell by winning a bronze decoration at the Tokyo Olympics, overcoming Germany 5-4. Siwach accepts that the ongoing group has gifted players fit for winning matches, notwithstanding being set in a difficult pool close by reigning champs Belgium, Australia, Argentina, New Zealand, and Ireland.


“The group has a few truly skilled players who have the capacities of winning matches,” Siwach said in a Hockey India discharge.

Indeed, the pool in which India is put in is a piece precarious, yet I’m sure that the group will finish this assessment and ideally change the shade of the decoration to gold.

Siwach is hopeful that the Indian group will conquer this test and possibly update their decoration tone to gold. Their mission starts on July 27 against New Zealand.

Siwach further featured the meaning of the forthcoming Public Ladies’ Hockey Association, a first in the homegrown circuit. This association will give a stage to youthful players to feature their abilities and methods, possibly making ready for their consideration in the public group. It will likewise offer important experiences for mentors, empowering them to recognize regions for development and refine the players’ games.

It will give an open door to youthful players to grandstand their abilities and procedures and truly establish themselves, in this manner making their own pathway to the Public group going ahead,” she said.

Through this, the players will likewise get to understand what regions they need to chip away at and how they can work on their game. It is similarly significant for the mentors as well as they will be more mindful of the players and how they can chip away at them, train them and refine their game.

The association will highlight the best eight groups from the as of late finished up Hockey India Senior Ladies Public Title in Pune. These groups are Haryana, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Bengal, Mizoram, Manipur, and Odisha. The association will be held in two stages, with the main stage occurring in Ranchi from April 30 to May 9.