Olympic bronze and hockey WC winner Kindo passes away

Photograph: Kind Courtesy, Odisha Sports/Twitter India's 1975 hockey World Cup-winning and 1972 Olympics bronze winning team member Michael Kondo died at a hospital, in Rourkela, on Thursday due......

Olympian Kindo calls for hockey coach Nobbs's head

Upset over India's disastrous show at the London Games, Olympian Michael Kindo has demanded immediate removal of coach Michael Nobbs for slamming the players midway through the Olympics. "While I......

'Our aim is to obtain the Olympic gold'

The obscure hamlet of Tainser was painted in silence except for a few young Adivasi lads who would regularly duel with bamboo sticks for possession of an indigenous ball. Little did the elders of......

When the glitter's gone

Poverty-stricken Moscow Olympics hockey gold medallist Sylvanus Dung Dung is fighting hard against putting the medals he earned from the game under the hammer to make ends meet."Occasional bouts of......

Hockey gives them a high

On a recent visit to Delhi I asked the taxi driver to take me to the Shivaji stadium. "Saab, aap Bharat ke hockey khiladi dekne jata kya (Are you going to see the Indian hockey team)?" he asked. I......