captain Charanjit Singh

Manpreet Singh

Kishan Lal

captain Kishan Lal

However, the Indian team did not take off their shoes. The team did not have to play bare-feet, as footage from the 1948 London hockey finals show. For Indian hockey, August 12, 1948 is a date writ in gold.

India has played eight football matches at the Olympic Games, and managed one win, one draw, and lost in six of them. India scored ten goals in seven matches against five different teams and conceded twenty-seven goals in eight matches against six different teams.

India (Gold, Moscow 1980, Men’s field hockey): For the first time since winning at the 1900 Olympics in Paris, India failed to stand on the podium in hockey at Montreal 1976. An eight-year winless run ended in 1980 at Moscow, when Vasudevan Bhaskaran’s men won gold, beating Spain 1-0 in the final.

What is the meaning behind the five Olympic rings? The five rings represented the parts of the world — Africa, Asia, Australia, the Americas and Europe — that were then, in Coubertin’s words, “won over to Olympism and ready to accept its fertile rivalries.”

Medals that are made with inexpensive material might be gilded, silver-plated, chased, or finished in a variety of other ways to improve their appearance. Medals have also been made of rock, gemstone, ivory, glass, porcelain, terra cotta, coal, wood, paper, enamel, lacquerware, and plastics.

Param Vir Chakra