Paris Olympics, hockey: Abhishek’s half-turn goal ends half a century of hurt as Australia overturned

First, it was against Belgium. Indian forward Abhishek stole the ball high up the pitch after a defender’s miscontrol, ran into the box, steadied himself to find some space with…

Indian hockey team ends 52-year wait, beats Australia at Paris Olympics

The French call it l’echelle de Zidane. Loosely translated as the ‘Zidane scale’, it’s a phrase used to describe the pleasure generated by a sporting spectacle. On a ‘Zidane scale…