Goanet Sports goanet at goanet.org Sun Mar 9 18:56:37 PDT 2008 > Britain end India's Olympic hockey hopes. > Great Britain scored twice in the first-half and ended India's Olympic dreams with a 2-0 victory in the final of the World Hockey qualifying tournament at the Prince of Wales Country Club, in Santiago, Chile, on Sunday. > Eight-time gold medallists India failed to make it to the Olympics for the first time since their debut in 1928. > Mario responds: > The lack of response among the Goans on Goanet to this news which signals the end of a remarkable era in sports history, shows how low Indian hockey has fallen, replaced by the religion called cricket. > A country of over a billion people with only one world class sports team is a sad commentary. >
