1968 Mexico Olympics hockey: ‘Man-made mistakes cost us’
Muneer Sait, goalkeeper of the Indian hockey team that won bronze at the Mexico Games in 1968, gets emotional every time he holds the medal. It reminds him of the gold they could have won.
Wriddhaayan Bhattacharyya
Gurbux Singh (right) and Balbir Singh II celebrate India’s second goal against Germany in the bronze-medal match in Mexico City on October 26, 1968. - The Hindu Photo Library
It is a usual weekday in Chennai, hot and humid with people speeding past to reach their offices while we enter the broad lane off Thousand Lights towards the residence of Muneer Sait. It took us a while to locate the house as the locals were not aware of an Olympian living next door. Sait is 81 but can be easily mistaken for somebody in his late 60s. He is fit, plays squash regularly and is aware of the goings-on in the world of sport.
