My Olympics Page : Links Covers the illustrious history of the olympic Games from Greek times to the Sydney Indian fieldhockey resource includes monthly bulletins and archives, http://members.rediff.com/olympics/LINKS.HTM
USATODAY.com - Almost Flawless, U.S. Wins Third Softball Gold One of the most overpowering performances in olympic history ended in the twilightMonday US did not qualify in baseball, field hockey or team handball http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/athens/team/2004-08-23-softball_x.htm
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John Slade's Olympian Journey If history were poetic, the 1948 United States olympic field hockey team wouldhave defeated Germany for the gold medal and John Slade would have made a http://www.ajhs.org/publications/chapters/chapter.cfm?documentID=278
Archived Weblog Entry - 12/08/2004: " Extensive olympic field hockey telecast scheduled on NBC Universal networks For the first time in its olympic broadcast history, NBC has scheduled http://www.fieldhockey.com/news/archives/00000999.htm
Extractions: Extensive Olympic Field Hockey telecast scheduled on NBC Universal networks By Jawwad Qamar For the first time in its Olympic broadcast history, NBC has scheduled extensive coverage of field hockey for viewers in America. NBC Universal networks MSNBC and Bravo will feature taped coverage of four men and four women pool matches, semifinal highlights, and the medal round matches in both divisions. This may not seem much to some given that a total of 128 matches will be played during the 14 days of competition but it is still remarkable given that USA field hockey teams are not in the mix. And even thou some matches will be shown at odd hours, any field hockey coverage on television is very much appreciated by the field hockey fans in America. Hopefully this is a start of more Olympic field hockey television coverage in the USA in the future. The play-by-play of hockey telecasts will be provided by Spero Dedes (NBA TV) on his first Olympic broadcast assignment and undoubtedly also his first field hockey experience. Hopefully Dedes and the telecast will be well supported by the expert comments and analysis from Nick Conway, the acting head coach of USA womens hockey team, in a broadcast booth for the first time. Conway, a last minute addition to the telecast, is however contracted to only work the medal rounds.
Balbir's Hockey Page Triple olympic gold medalist Balbir Singh. London olympics 1948, Helsinki - 1952 and Melbourne - 1958 (captain). field hockey World Cup - Kuala Lumpur (Chief Coach and Manager). http://geocities.com/Colosseum/Pressbox/7654/
HickokSports.com - History - Index To The Olympics Amateurism; olympic Swimming Records olympic Track field Records Read aboutthe history of the olympics at Questia, the world s largest online http://www.hickoksports.com/history/olympix.shtml
Field Hockey History -- Facts, Info, And Encyclopedia Article field hockey history. This page is about the (A record or narrative Men s hockeybecame a permanent fixture at the Olympics at the (Click link for more http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/F/Fi/Field_hockey_history.htm
Extractions: This page is about the (A record or narrative description of past events) history of the (Hockey played on a field; two opposing teams use curved sticks to drive a ball into the opponents' net) field hockey game. Field Hockey is the oldest known stick-and-ball game. Historical records show that game was played in various antique civilizations, although it is not possible to know exactly when and where the game began. 4,000-year-old drawings found in the Beni-Hasen tombs, in the (Click link for more info and facts about Nile Valley) Nile Valley (A republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC) Egypt depicted men playing the sport. Other traces show that the (A member of a Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks Arabic and who inhabits much of the Middle East and northern Africa) Arab s, the (A native or inhabitant of Greece) Greek s, the
Field Hockey - The Virtual LIbrary Of Sport field hockey coverage at the Virtual Library of Sport history, Internationalhockey, Olympics field hockey Preview from The Sports Network http://sportsvl.com/ball/hockey.htm
Extractions: H ome Field Hockey The Game ( About Rules Improve History ... Commercial The game of field hockey is played on a rectangular field which is 100 yards (91.4 m) long and 60 yards (55 m) wide and is divided by a center line and a 25 yard line in each half of the field . The game is played on both grass fields and on watered down artificial turf (astro) although, for serious play, only astro is used because it is totally flat and obviously far faster than grass. The goal cages are 4 yards/12 feet (3.66 m) wide and 7 feet (2.13 m) high and there is a striking circle measured out 16 yards from each goal post. This striking circle (semi-circle) is also known as 'the circle' or the 'D' and a goal can only be scored from a shot taken within this semi-circle. The ball cannot be lifted into the circle but must be brought in on the ground. About Hockey know the game top Field Hockey - The Game from Wikipedia; history, rules, pitch, competitions...
Extractions: Ancient meets modern as the Olympic Games gear up every four years to showcase the world's best athletes in both Winter and Summer events. The links, below, will take you to Olympic mega sites that cover the whole spectacular from beginning to end... enhanced by cutting-edge Internet coverage, photos, video clips, athlete bio's, team profiles, plus interactive exhibits on Olympic Games history, and a bit of Olympic trivia, facts, figures and feature stories In the U.S., watch for complete television coverage on NBC and in the UK on BBC Winter 2006 Olympic Sports Guide
Track Star Gail Devers Makes Olympic History. Track and field. Gail Devers makes 5th olympic Team. Devers becomes only the 2ndwoman in history to make 5 olympic teams in Track http://athleticscholarships.net/track-field-olympic-devers.htm
Extractions: For immediate release th Also winning Olympic Trials titles Sunday, the final day of competition, were Olympic gold medalist Stacy Dragila in the womens pole vault, Alan Webb in the mens 1,500 meters, Terrence Trammell in the mens 110-meter hurdles, Shawn Crawford in the mens 200m, Allyson Felix at age 18 the youngest member of Team USA in the womens 200m, Jarred Rome in the mens discus, Teresa Vaill in the womens 20 km walk, and Carrie Tollefson in the womens 1,500m. Over eight days of competition, 172, 230 fans saw an onslaught of new records set: two American, 11 Olympic Trials, eight U.S. championship, two U.S. junior, one collegiate, one U.S. all-comers, and three American U.S. all-comers records. The 1992 and 96 Olympic gold medalist in the 100m dash, the 37-year-old Devers got off to her customary fast start, arriving at the first hurdle in first place. Joanna Hayes, who ran the second-fastest time in the world this year with her 12.50 in the semifinals, moved up over the last hurdles, but fell just two one-thousandths of a second shy Devers.
History Of Hockey One of these shows Athenian youths playing field hockey. The first Olympichockey Competition for men was held in London in 1908 with England, http://www.alphalink.com.au/~hockeyv/history.htm
Extractions: Historical records show that a crude form of hockey was played in Egypt 4,000 years ago, and in Ethiopia around 1,000 BC. Various museums offer evidence that a form of the game was played by Romans and Greeks, and by the Aztec Indians of South America several centuries before Columbus landed in the New World. The National Archaeological Museum in Athens holds a square marble slab measuring 60 cm x 20 cm with four bas-reliefs of ancient sporting events. One of these shows Athenian youths playing field hockey. These bas-reliefs date back to 514 BC and show that a type of hockey was being enjoyed in Greece at that time. Hockey in England in the 17th and 18th century consisted of whole villages playing the game with the objective of hitting the ball into the opposing villages' common ground. Teams often consisted of 60 to 100 players and games occasionally lasted several days or so with injuries such as broken arms and legs not uncommon. Umpires could only arbitrate a decision if called upon to do so by a player from one of the teams. (a situation that sounds familiar even in these days!) In 1852 the sportsmaster of Harrow, an English Public School, advised his pupils that, among other things, no more than thirty players per team were allowed on the field at any one time. In those early days, team formation consisted of having more forwards than defenders, a situation that persisted up until the late 1800's.
CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History 1992 Barcelona A history of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Relatives of fieldhockey goldmedallist Andreas Keller who also won field hockey medals for Germany http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/1992.html
CBC.ca - Athens 2004 - History 1960 Rome A history of the 1960 Rome Olympics. With a 10 victory, Pakistan ended thesix-Olympiad field hockey winning streak of its bitterest rival, India. http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/1960.html
Extractions: Romans, Persians, Greeks, Arabs and Aztecs were enjoying jolly hockey sticks long before the fathers of the modern Games dreamt their dream. Indeed, Cleopatra and her descendants might once have peered out over a hockey match if sketches found in a tomb at Ben Hasan in Egypt that dates back 4,000 years are to be believed; they show a form of the game being played with sticks and rocks. Historians also believe that the native Indian populations of North America played a long version of the game, in which the goals were miles apart and hundreds of players took part throughout a whole day. What the called their game we may never know, as hockey is thought to be derived from the French word hocquet, meaning shepherd's crook, the shape of a hockey stick. The modern game, field hockey, was developed largely in English schools in the 1800s and was spread through the British Empire by the Army. Rules were standardised by the London Hockey Association after it was formed in 1886. It was not until 38 years later that the International Hockey Federation was born in Paris, while the federation for women's hockey followed in 1927.
Extractions: Modern field hockey evolved in Britain in the late 1800s but was not introduced to the Games until 1908 and only took a permanent place in Antwerp in 1928. Amazingly, it took until Moscow in 1980 to introduce the women's game. The men's game was dominated by an incredible run of victories by India over three decades; between 1928 and 1956 all six gold medals in 30 consecutive games were won by Indians, one of the most remarkable Olympic statistics. As interesting to the statistically minded is the fact that Balbir Singh, who scored five of the six goals that took India to a 6-1 victory over The Netherlands in Helsinki, 1952, was just the first of four India players of the same name who played on winning teams. The first Balbir Singh, however, was the best; he was renowned for confusing goalkeepers with his turn of speed and body-swerve and was a member of three successive winning teams, 1948, 1952 and 1956, by which time he had been made captain. The Indians have won two further titles since 1956 and no nation has won a consecutive victory since India in Melbourne.
Pakistan Hockey Federation history Of hockey. When Canadians hear the word hockey, it instantly evokes images field hockey has never enjoyed Canadians attention the way its ice http://www.phf.com.pk/history.php
Extractions: Pakistan Hockey Team International Hockey Federation History Of Hockey When Canadians hear the word "hockey," it instantly evokes images of frozen ponds, skates and pucks. But when you mention the summer version played on grass, most Canucks are left out in the cold. Field hockey has never enjoyed Canadians’ attention the way its ice counterpart has.The game resembles a cross between ice hockey and soccer with the object being to outscore your opponent. But goals are hard to come by as 11 players aside run up-and-down the large field, only slightly smaller than a soccer pitch. The lack of offensive opportunities can lead to methodical, defensive games as teams search for weaknesses in their opponents. In an effort to add excitement and offence, the offside rule was removed in 1998. An attacking player no longer needs to keep the ball or defender ahead of him or her when moving into a scoring position. As the stick and ball game began to gain acceptance and popularity, field hockey finally made its way into the Olympics, fittingly in the heart of its birthplace, when it debuted at the 1908 Games in London; it has been a permanent fixture at the Games since 1928. Since that time, one nation has been synonymous with field hockey supremacy. India dominated the Olympics from 1928-1956, winning all six gold medals.
Olympics History - CBS SportsLine.com field hockey. Event, Gold, Silver, Bronze. Men s, India, Great Britain, Netherlands 1932 Summer Olympics (X). Los Angeles, United States http://cbs.sportsline.com/olympics/summer/nations/history/IND
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Michigan Athletes Have Made Olympic History He had won by the largest margin for any weight class in olympic history. It was the first time women s hockey had been an olympic sport. http://info.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?id=148&category=sports
Planet Field Hockey.com - Women's Asia Cup History - Part II Connecting the field hockey world. News, Updates, Discussion from the latest January 28, 2004 Introduction of women hockey in the 1980 Olympics has http://www.planetfieldhockey.com/PFH/Item-View-11255-134
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