Indian males’s hockey staff captain Harmanpreet Singh known as the choice to exclude hockey from the 2026 Commonwealth Video games as ‘unlucky’ and revealed that his aspect was concentrating on gold within the match. On the eve of taking reigning world champion Germany in a bilateral sequence at Main Dhyan Chand Stadium right here, Indian males’s staff head coach Craig Fulton and Harmanpreet have been addressing a pre-match press convention after they acquired to know in regards to the growth.
“I want time to consider that. It’s what it’s. Unlucky (choice), and on the identical time, I am desirous about right this moment and what’s gonna occur tomorrow and the day after. That is for down the road, that is for an additional time to determine, focus on ramifications and what occurs subsequent,” mentioned Fulton.
Harmanpreet echoed the identical sentiments and added, “I simply acquired to know now. I am additionally on the identical web page. We have been concentrating on a gold medal in that match however unfortune to listen to this information now. It isn’t in our arms and we will not give it some thought and at current the 2 matches (in opposition to Germany) are vital for us.”
India have by no means gained the gold medal in males’s hockey in CWG regardless of reaching the finals in 2010, 2014 and 2022, dropping to Australia on all three events.
The ladies’s hockey staff gained the one gold medal for India in CWG in 2002 in Manchester. Curiously, the boys’s staff didn’t take part within the 2002 version.
The twenty third version of the CWG is ready to be held in Glasgow from July 23 to August 2, 2026, and can characteristic solely 10 sports activities with the exclusion of hockey, cricket, wrestling, desk tennis, badminton and squash. Capturing, which was additionally dropped from the Birmingham 2022 CWG programme, remains to be out. There have been 19 sports activities on the programme when Glasgow hosted the CWG in 2014.
In many of the sports activities which have been dropped from the Video games, India gained a number of medals in Birmingham.
India gained 61 medals together with 22 gold within the final version of the Video games. Of their complete tally, 12 got here from wrestling, seven every in boxing and desk tennis, six in badminton, two every in hockey and squash and one in cricket – greater than half of the whole medals.
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