The Indian males’s hockey workforce lived as much as the expectations of its followers and defeated Staff GB within the semi-finals of the Paris 2024 Olympics on Sunday. Regardless of enjoying with simply 10 gamers after Amit Rohidas was proven a pink card, India beat England 4-2 on penalties to succeed in the semi-finals. With this win, the Indian hockey workforce is trying to win their second consecutive Olympic medal. Nevertheless, the suspension of major defender and main rusher Amit Rohidas grew to become a subject and brought on some controversy.
After receiving the pink card, Rohidas was additionally suspended for one sport. The letter was written by technical consultant Joshua Burt. The whole nation was outraged after Rohidas was suspended, however few knew about Burt’s Bollywood connections.
Burt performed the function of the coach of the Australian ladies’s workforce within the 2007 blockbuster movie “Chak De! India”. Apparently, the movie, starring Shah Rukh Khan, has the Australian workforce because the villain, inflicting difficulties for the Indian workforce.
After seeing his function within the movie and his quarter-final scenes on the Paris Olympics, many Indian followers lashed out at him on social media, calling him a “real-life villain”.
Joshua Burt, who performed Australian coach India in Chak De!, is now a technical consultant on the FIH #ParisOlympics2024and was the official who wrote the suspension letter for Amit Rohidas’ offense in yesterday’s sport
— Ayan Mukherjee (@I_AyanMukherjee) August 5, 2024
Attention-grabbing info: @Olympic Games Hockey Championship Director Joshua Burt (who confirmed the one-game ban for Amit Rohidas) additionally performed the function of coach of the Australian ladies’s workforce in Chak De India. loopy!#Olympics #paris2024 #hockey
— Nakul Kamath (@naxical13) August 4, 2024
Speaking about Rohidas, the Indian defender’s stick was mentioned to have swung close to the face of England’s William Calnan within the second session of the match.
In line with the Worldwide Hockey Federation’s “Participant Conduct” guidelines: “Gamers on the sector should maintain the stick and should not use it in a harmful method. Gamers should not carry the stick over the heads of different gamers.”
India has reached the semi-finals after successful within the quarter-finals and can face Germany for a spot within the Paris Olympic finals.
India gained the final of eight Olympic gold medals on the 1980 Moscow Olympics. Paris gives them the proper alternative to make historical past.
Victory within the semi-finals will guarantee India a silver medal, which they final gained on the 1960 Rome Olympics.
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