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Women's Hockey Olympic Qualifiers: India Get Ready For Key Battles With A Lot On The Line
Marang Gomke Jaipal Singh Astro: With the huge reputation they gained by finishing fourth in the Tokyo Olympics on the line, the Indian women's hockey team goes into battle mode here in tournament 1 of the Women's FIH Hockey Olympic Qualifiers hoping to make it to their third Olympics in a row.
The Indian team had finished fourth in the 1980 Olympics at Moscow when women's hockey made its debut at the Olympics. They missed the action in the next three decades before finally qualifying for the 2016 edition in Rio de Janeiro.
A brilliant display in the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in which they defeated Australia in the quarterfinals before going down to Argentina in the semis and eventually finished fourth enhanced their reputation as a team to be taken seriously. That was followed by a third-place finish in the FIH Pro League 2021-22 when a few higher-ranked teams pulled out due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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