Tokyo Olympics: Sports Minister Anurag Thakur and Kiren Rijiju, Union Minister of Law and Justice, praised the Indian men's hockey team for securing the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics. The men in blue defeated Germany 5-4 to clinch the first medal in 41 years in hockey at the Games. Here Sports Minister took to his Twitter and congratulated the hockey team:
A BILLION CHEERS for INDIA ????????!
? Anurag Thakur (@ianuragthakur) August 5, 2021
Boys, you?ve done it !
We can?t keep calm !#TeamIndia ????!
Our Men?s Hockey Team dominated and defined their destiny in the Olympic history books today, yet again !
We are extremely proud of you!#Tokyo2020 pic.twitter.com/n78BqzcnpK
The Men in Blue showed sheer resilience, strength, and winning spirit to register a remarkable comeback win against a strong German team. The German team got off the block very quickly in the first quarter after the Indian defense was caught napping. Timur Oruz scored past Sreejesh from the scramble in the D. Graham Reid's men responded well in the second quarter as the team scored a brilliant field goal from the counterattack. Nilakanta found Simranjeet with a long ball into the D and he ended the move intelligently on the turn. Germany soon regained their lead from the goal by Wellen on the counter. After that, the floodgates of goals opened for both teams as Furk capitalized on the error of Surender to give Germany a 3-1 lead in the game.
India again came back in the game as Hardik Singh jumped on Harmanpreet's drag-flick to peg the Germans one back. In the dying moments of the first half, Harmanpreet Singh again came clutch for India with his superb drag-flick to level the match 3-3. The second half started with a bang for the Men in Blue as Rupinder Pal Singh converted a penalty stroke and in the preceding phase, Germany lost their referral too. For the fifth goal for India, Gurjant beautifully outran the German defender on the right flank to find Simranjeet in the center as he scored his second of the match. In the fourth quarter of the match, Windfeder converted the PC as he smashed the ball through the legs of Sreejesh and reduced the lead of India by one goal. But Indian defenders held on after that.
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