Reliving Indian hockey's 1980 Olympic gold win
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V. Baskaran, captain of India's 1980 Olympics gold-winning team, relives the struggle that went behind achieving the coveted yellow metal.
S. R. Suryanarayan
Imagine my position as captain. If we had lost, I would have been dubbed the worst captain Indian hockey had ever had. Such was my plight, but fortunately things finally turned out in our favour. When I think of that gripping afternoon in the Moscow hockey stadium in the presence of a goodly crowd I still sweat.