Indian hockey should aim to achieve benchmark set by Belgium and Australia, says men’s coach Reid
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While Australia has been a hockey powerhouse after the 1980s, reigning Olympic and world champions Belgium took the game by storm in the last 10 years by finishing runners-up in 2016 Rio and then winning the gold in Tokyo Games
Indian players celebrate their victory over Germany in the men's field hockey bronze medal match, at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Tokyo, on August 5, 2021. PTI file
A historic Olympic medal, notwithstanding, the Indian men’s hockey team should try to emulate the benchmark set by Belgium and Australia if it wishes to reclaim the gold in three years’ time in 2024 Paris Games, said the side’s chief coach Graham Reid.