India women's hockey coach Sjoerd Marijne shares Olympic-size 'big dream'
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India women's hockey team coach admits he's "very proud" of the progress made by Rani Rampal and co., who secured qualification for Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
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Rani Rampal (right) and coach Sjoerd Marijne address the media during the Tokyo 2020 Hockey Qualifiers. - Biswaranjan Rout
The dramatic Olympic Qualifier that saw the team book its ticket to Tokyo by the slimmest of margins at the cost of a shocked USA on Saturday was perhaps the closest to a movie script Indian women’s hockey had written in a long time. The final flourish came, not unsurprisingly, from the stick of captain Rani Rampal, the lynchpin of this side for a decade.