: IOA chief Narinder Batra asks Hockey India to explain men’s team’s ‘unacceptable’ results #IndiaNEWS Indian Olympic Association president Narinder Batra, who also heads the International Hockey

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IOA chief Narinder Batra asks Hockey India to explain men’s team’s ‘unacceptable’ results #IndiaNEWS
Indian Olympic Association president Narinder Batra, who also heads the International Hockey Federation, termed the Indian men’s hockey team’s performance in recent tournaments as “unacceptable,� and asked the national federation to explain the reasons behind it.In a strongly-worded communication to Hockey India president Gyanendro Ningombam, Batra said he has serious concerns about the team’s performance after the historic bronze at the Tokyo Olympics last year.He also indicated that the team is being mismanaged, but did not specify how.“I have serious concerns about the way the Indian men’s hockey team has performed after the Tokyo bronze medal. In Bangladesh and now in South Africa. Blaming the players… is not the ultimate and only truth for me,� Batra said in the message, also marked to HI secretary general Rajinder Singh and CEO Elena Norman.The Indian team has been inconsistent after scripting history in the Tokyo Games in August last year, where it won a bronze medal – a first at the Olympics in 41 years.The team could not defend the Asian Champions Trophy title in December and then lost to lower-ranked France in an FIH Pro League match in South Africa last week.“My observations are much more than that. I would like to have your views. The way...Read more

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