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Hockey At CWG 2022: Indian Women Look To Bury World Cup Ghosts

A podium finish on its mind, the Indian women's hockey team would look to bury the ghosts of a disastrous World Cup campaign by steam-rolling minnows Ghana in the Commonwealth Games opener on Thursday. The Indian women are clubbed in Pool A alongside hosts England, Canada, Wales and Ghana, while Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Scotland and Kenya complete Pool B. Just like their male counterparts, the Indian women returned empty-handed from the last edition of the Games in Gold Coast, finishing fourth after being routed 0-6 by England in the bronze medal play-off match.

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Commonwealth Games launching new chapter for Canadian field hockey

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Hockey at CWG: Indian women look to bury World Cup ghosts, seek Tokyo inspiration to end medal drought

Commonwealth Games (CWG) 2022 journey with the game against Ghana on Thursday. The Indian women's team is clubbed in Pool A alongside hosts England, Canada, Wales and Ghana, while Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Scotland and Kenya complete Pool B. Just like their male counterparts, the Indian women returned empty-handed from the last edition of the Games in Gold Coast, finishing fourth after being routed 0-6 by England in the bronze medal play-off match. Going into the Games, the Indian women must have been haunted by their below-par effort in the recently concluded World Cup in Spain and the Netherlands, where the Savita Punia-led side finished a disappointing ninth. And the Janneke Schopman-coached side would be desperate to prove that it is a far better side than what the recent results indicate. They would be itching to prove their detractors wrong about the perception that a historic fourth place finish in last year's Tokyo Olympics was a mere fluke.

Indian flag hoisted at CWG Village in Birmingham

Commonwealth Games (CWG) 2022, the Indian flag was hoisted at the Athletes' Village in Birmingham. Several Indian athletes, including the men's and women's hockey teams, took part in the flag-hoisting ceremony on Thursday. In the presence of Indian Olympic Association's (IOA) Acting President Anil Khanna, IOA Treasurer Anandeshwar Panday, Anil Dhupar, the Deputy Chef de Mission for the Games, and other IOA officials, Team India's Chef de Mission, Rajesh Bhandari, hoisted the flag in a ceremony filled with music and dance.

No Neeraj Chopra But India Hope To Still Pack A Punch at CWG 2022

India's Commonwealth Games ambitions have been badly hit by the last-minute withdrawal of Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra but they still have high hopes of gold in several sports including boxing and badminton. The Commonwealth's most populous country is not generally known as a global sporting powerhouse -- except for cricket -- but it has regularly performed well at the Games. India came third in the medals table behind hosts Australia, and England, at the last edition of the Games at the Gold Coast in 2018, and were in the top five at the previous four.

CWG 2022: India aim to end Aussie jinx

Men's hockey team eyes medal after having returned empty-handed last timeBENGALURU: The script for the Indian men's hockey at the Commonwealth Games hasn't panned out the way they would have wished for. Since the introduction of the sport at the quadrennial event in 1998, Australia have won gold on all six occasions. India came close twice - in 2010 and 2014 - before being outplayed by the team from Down Under. This edition of the event beginning in Birmingham on Friday was not on the priority list until the Asian Games were postponed by a year. With a full squad and an eye on bettering their performance in the competition, Manpreet Singh and Co landed in Birmingham earlier this week. Having lost to England 1-2 in the bronze medal playoff and returned empty-handed in 2018, India are keen to make amends.

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Hockey At CWG 2022: Indian Women Look To Bury World Cup Ghosts

Canada's top women hockey players say there's much to do to clean up toxic behaviour

Commonwealth Games launching new chapter for Canadian field hockey

Players in Canada-USA friendship series in Thunder Bay hope it's a win for women's baseball

Hockey at CWG: Indian women look to bury World Cup ghosts, seek Tokyo inspiration to end medal drought

Indian flag hoisted at CWG Village in Birmingham

No Neeraj Chopra But India Hope To Still Pack A Punch at CWG 2022

CWG 2022: India aim to end Aussie jinx