Savita Punia, the captain and goalkeeper of the Indian women’s hockey team, has nevertheless been haunted by the team’s failure to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics. At the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, India designed a historic fourth-put complete, missing a medal by a whisker, shedding the bronze medal enjoy-off 3-4 towards Great Britain.
This will be the initial time due to the fact the 2016 Rio Olympics that the Indian women’s group will be missing the Olympic Games.
“Good moments in everyday living are not overlooked but neither are the bad types. Getting rid of the Olympic qualifiers is such a poor second that we will probably not be capable to overlook our overall daily life,” Savita was quoted as saying by PTI.
The countrywide women’s crew was predicted to secure a location at the Olympics for the 3rd successive time at the Olympic qualifiers in Ranchi. But a 1- defeat in the bronze medal playoff match in opposition to Japan dashed India’s Olympic hope.
“I haven’t been capable to get in excess of it nevertheless,” she admitted.
Savita is so heartbroken by the defeat in the third-put playoff in opposition to Japan that she does not even want to recollect the moment.
“I did not want to converse about it since it continue to hurts a great deal. I however can not feel that we are not likely to Olympics. We had been assured and perfectly-geared up but you cannot predict just about anything in sports activities,” she explained.
“Immediately after the qualifiers, we have been at household for a 7 days and informed all the gamers that this crack is a for them to cry and experience sad as significantly as they want. Trying to keep it within will do no excellent and it is needed to vent it out. No 1 talked about the Olympic qualifiers in the course of this crack,” she exposed.