The majority of those medals will be given in sports that originated, in their modern form, in Britain: archery, athletics (track and field), boxing, badminton, field hockey, football (soccer), rowing, sailing, swimming, water polo, table tennis, and tennis.
Meanwhile, The Netherlands defeated China 2-0 to win the gold in women's field hockey .
And the 13 channels in Asia show sports like table tennis and men's field hockey.
Not all of them are staying after high school for football practice, or field hockey.
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Other than field hockey, Team GB has proven largely awful or been eliminated (soccer).
Then, like the Incas, Indian field hockey vanished from the podium, in 2008 missing the Olympics altogether.
From 1928 through 1980, India won 11 consecutive Olympic medals in field hockey, including eight gold medals.
But no malady is more feared than what is known in Olympic circles as Indian Field Hockey Syndrome.
Of course, replays of classic football and basketball games will probably outdraw live volleyball, baseball, or field hockey contests.
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You will after reading this story about the high school field hockey player who came back after suffering one.
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London is hosting the 2015 European field hockey championships, the 2017 Athletics world championships and 2017 Paralympic athletics world championships.
In the final voting, wrestling went up against field hockey and modern pentathlon, with modern pentathlon looking like the most vulnerable of the three.
Some were awarded for having created an earlier version of a modern sport, like China's claim to soccer or Mongolia's claim of field hockey.
My kids love the outdoors and all of three of them play sports of some description (rugby, soccer and field hockey are our current favorites).
That is true for nearly all of the winter sports, like skiing and skating, as well as for ones like field hockey, swimming, and tennis.
Baseball, which likes grass, and women's field hockey, which prefers old AstroTurf for faster play, are still resisting FieldTurf, says Andrew McNitt, a turf specialist at Pennsylvania State University.
The Netherlands defeated world champion Argentina 2-0 to earn gold in Friday night's women's field hockey final, shortly after Great Britain topped New Zealand 3-1 to earn the bronze.
But nor am I a regular fan of bobsledding, field hockey, rowing, hammer throw, or, for that matter, gymnastics or Alpine skiing or the 100 meter dash or swimming.
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The photo was taken on March 24 by teenager Lisa Smith, her field hockey coach said, when their team was visiting the University of Pretoria where Pistorius' regular practice facility is.
Field hockey coach and school sports director Charmaine Koekemoer said she was driving the bus past the track at around 10.15 a.m. on the Sunday morning when members of her Hoerskool Voortrekker girls hockey team started shouting "There's Oscar, there's Oscar!"
Sometimes the scoreboard seems to have an impact on team touchiness: The U.S. women's field hockey team could be seen exchanging group hugs after goals in previous games but in the opening frames of a 7-0 shutout by South Africa, they were all business and 100% hug free.
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The couple described their son as "academically bright, an accomplished musician and an amazing field hockey player who had trained with the England under-15 team and had hoped to reach the England under-16 team this year, with the ambition of eventually playing for Britain in the Olympics in 2020".
Whichever sport is chosen will join the 25 sports the IOC listed Tuesday as core sports for 2020: athletics (track and field), rowing, badminton, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football (soccer), gymnastics, weightlifting, handball, field hockey, judo, swimming, modern pentathlon, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, shooting, archery, triathlon, sailing and volleyball.
Whitehead tried every sport he could including archery, swimming, cricket, gymnastics, canoeing, track and field and sledge hockey.
This not despite but perhaps because of the rain that fell at Heinz Field, which provided weather elements that drew things closer to the pond hockey-style spirit of the event and forced it to be played during primetime hours.
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