Olympics (Women’s Hockey): India making history in the semi-finals, now it’s time to beat Argentina

India’s women’s hockey team scripted history by thrashing even stronger three-time Olympic champions Australia 1-0 to make it to the semi-finals of the Tokyo Olympics on Monday. The most important thing is that the women’s team has reached the semi-finals for the first time. Now he will face World No. 5 Argentina on August 4, who defeated Germany. In this historic match played at Oi Hockey Stadium North Pitch-2, Gurjit Kaur scored the only goal of the match in the 22nd minute against the famous Australian team known as Hakerooj. The goal was scored on a penalty corner.

Putting all the speculations to rest, the world number 9 Indian team defeated world number 2 Australia and reached the semi-finals of the Olympics for the first time. Now he will face World No. 5 Argentina on August 4, who defeated Germany.

India is playing in its third Olympics. She qualified for the Rio Olympics (2016), 36 years after Moscow (1980).

The women’s hockey tournament at the Moscow Olympics began on July 25 and lasted until July 31. Only six teams took part in it.

Zimbabwe won the gold medal at the top of the pool at the conclusion of the pool stage. Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union won the silver and bronze medals, respectively.
India had won two of the five matches in the pool. They had one match drawn while they lost two matches. India was last placed fourth with five points.

India then qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics but finished last in the 12-team tournament. India had got only one draw in the five matches at the pool level.

Tokyo Olympics has proved to be historic for Indian hockey. Along with the women’s team, the men’s team has also reached the semi-finals. This is the first time in the history of Indian hockey that both the teams have reached the medal round.

After losing three matches in a row at the pool level, the way the women made a comeback and winning two matches in a row, prepared the ground for themselves going into the knockouts. For this too, however, he needed the support of luck. It found support at the hands of Britain with Ireland’s har and after that it had to cross the hurdle of a strong Australian team.

The Indian team had nothing to lose, they just had to play their hearts out and that’s what they did. The Indian team made a breakthrough in the 22nd minute by thwarting every attack from Australia and defended the score against the mighty Hawkerooj fighting like the Mahadur lioness.

This match is one of the biggest matches in the history of Indian hockey and will be remembered for centuries. Whatever be the result of the semi-final against Argentina, but the Indian team has created history. Now if he plays without pressure in the semi-finals also, no one can stop him from winning a medal. Earlier, Argentina defeated Germany 3-0 in the first quarter-final played on Monday itself.