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Signs of promise despite loss for women
The New Indian Express Anantapur
|February 20, 2025
A YEAR ago, the Indian women's hockey side wasn't in a very good place.
They had just failed to qualify for the Olympics, three years after agonisingly missing out on an Olympic medal. Their coach, Janneke Schopman, in a very revealing mixed zone interaction to two scribes, had poured her heart over the challenges of working in India. Rani Rampal, one of the finest players this country has seen, was left out in the wilderness. Savita Punia, a goalkeeper of some repute, was thinking about retirement. Suffice to say the team needed a pick me up.
This story is from the February 20, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Anantapur.
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