: Medal lost, hearts won: Why we should celebrate the Indian women’s hockey team anyway #IndiaNEWS There are some who will choose to remember that India lost the bronze medal match against Great Britain.

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Medal lost, hearts won: Why we should celebrate the Indian women’s hockey team anyway #IndiaNEWS
There are some who will choose to remember that India lost the bronze medal match against Great Britain. They will say we shouldn’t celebrate a fourth-place finish… that we as a nation should set our sights higher. But to all those people I say, ‘What is there to not celebrate?’The greatness of sport lies not just in the champions. It lies as much in the underdogs who punch above their weight; who astound us with their tenacity; who shock us with their fight. They are the unpredictables and that is what the India women’s hockey team was at the Olympics. Coming into the Olympics, most hoped that this team could get into the quarterfinal. They hoped that this team could sneak through in fourth place at the group stage. They did exactly that. Getting the vital win over Ireland and then scrapping for a win over South Africa while Great Britain, the reigning champs, beat Ireland. A medal isnt the only measure of a champion. The #IND Women’s Hockey team proved this at Tokyo!(1/7) pic.twitter.com/1SvsdCFlfI— #Tokyo2020 for India (@Tokyo2020hi) August 6, 2021 But next up for them was Australia in the quarterfinal. Finishing fourth in the group stage meant that they ran into the top-placed team in the other group....Read more

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