Indian men wary of complacency; Sjoerd Marijne looks to capitalise on women's team's newfound confidence
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Graham Reid pictured during a training session with the Indian men's hockey team. Twitter@TheHockeyIndia
The luxury for Graham Reid, if one can call it that, going into the two-match Olympic qualifiers in which winner takes all, namely a spot in Tokyo 2020, is that Reid can think beyond the Kalinga. With no disrespect to Russia as an opponent, knowing fully well that matches in the Olympic Qualifying in different parts of the world have run close, it will still be a tall order, probably the upset of the year or even the last decade if Russia put it across India. Strange things do happen in sport. But for India to lose to Russia would be akin to not turning up for the match.