New Delhi: Prasanna Lara, an analyst for the Indian hockey team, has made some astonishing revelations while talking to Team India spinner R Ashwin in a video. He explained the plight of the hockey team in the earlier round. Tell you that Prasanna Lara is also known as a cricket analyst. He said that this story is heart-rending as our hockey players have won medals after a lot of hard work and difficulty. Lara shared his personal experience and said that while he was working with the Indian hockey team, he saw that four players had to stay in one room.
He said that his stay was in an ordinary hotel. Prasanna Lara said that on the contrary, when he worked with India's Under-19 cricket team, the players used to get different rooms in the five-star hotel. 5000 per day for each room. The match fees were paid separately. The cricket team got money after the defeat to Pakistan. Ashwin also confirmed that while he was playing for the Under-17 team, the players were accommodated at the Taj Samudra Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka and there were two players in one room. While there was exactly the opposite with hockey. Prasanna Lara said that when he was newly associated with the Indian hockey team, player Sardara Singh told him that dinner is served at 6:30 pm. Sardar Singh has been the captain of the Indian hockey team. Lara said he was not used to eating so quickly, but then found out that if he did not eat at that time, the canteen was closed. Breakfast was served at 7 a.m. and lunch at 12:30 p.m. When Prasanna Lara spoke of the use of his daily allowance, he was stunned to hear that there was no provision for anything like this for hockey players.
The next day, when Lara discovered the laundry, he found out that the players had to wash their clothes with their own hands. He said that when he was associated with the hockey team, the team had defeated many foreign teams and was a strong contender for the Olympics, but still there was such a system for them. He said the team was scheduled to leave Bengaluru for Mumbai and then from there to Johannesburg to play the Olympic qualifiers in 2008. But, there was a waiting time of 6:30 hours at Mumbai airport. Cricketers are given lounges to spend time in such a situation, but hockey players had to spend time sitting at the airport. The 11:30-hour trip to Johannesburg was followed by a 12-hour waiting time to travel to Sao Paulo, Brazil. He was then scheduled to travel to Chile, where it took 4:30 hours from Brazil. Thus, the Indian hockey team had to travel 72 hours from Bengaluru to Chile. The next day was the match, but there was no breakfast arrangement. The match was from 12:30. In this case, biscuits were given for breakfast at 11 o'clock. Then they were asked to carry bananas, biscuits, and water to the ground because there was no food arrangement. Lara said it was the plight of the medal-winning national hockey team. He said that the players did not even get the match fee, the players had just gone there because of their passion.
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