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Anurag Thakur has slammed Hockey India for not consulting the government before announcing that the Indian national teams won’t be featuring in the upcoming 2022 Commonwealth Games. The governing body had taken this decision to focus on assignments like 2022 Asian Games and 2024 Olympic qualifiers.

Graham Reid feels that the multiple awards won by the national team players at the FIH Hockey Stars Awards is a reflection of the hard work put in by a lot of people in the group. India's Harmanpreet Singh and Gurjit Kaur won the FIH Player of the Year awards in the men's and women's categories.

Nilkanta Sharma is hoping that more youngsters from Manipur will take up hockey in the upcoming days, after the inspiring display of the Indian men's hockey team at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The Indian midfielder played in each of the eight matches in Tokyo, en-route to a bronze medal win.

Indian men’s hockey team forward Gurjant Singh revealed that he and Harmanpreet Singh could have well missed out on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics if the event was not delayed by one year. Both of them suffered injuries and underwent surgeries, with them recovering just in time for the postponed Games.