India won its first Olympic 1928, gold by the magic of Dhyan Chand.
The golden of Indian hockey started with the 1928 Olympic Games. Dhyan Chand scored 14 goals, India scored 29 goals.
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| Olympic games 1928 Dhyan Chand |
India participated under the British flag. But this time India was not left empty handed. She won her first gold medal in Olympic Games history. The gold journey of Indian hockey also started with this medal.
Major Dhyan Chand scored 2 goals in the final to win.
India faced host Netherlands in the final. Dhyan Chand showed a great game and scored maximum 2 goals. In this way, India defeated Netherlands 3-0 and became champions for the first time. The special thing was that no opposition team could score against India in the entire tournament.
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| Olympic games 1948 |
The Olympic torch was lit for the first time in history.
These Olympic Games marked the beginning of torch lighting for the first time, which continues to this day. The idea comes from ancient Greece, when the ancient fire of Hestia (Greek goddess) was constantly burning during the ancient Olympic Games.
With these Games, for the first time, the IOC decided to organize a 16-day Olympic event, which lasted until 1984.
Major Dhyan Chand had high fever in the final match. Nevertheless, his coach manager AB Rosser, who came to the ground to play the Olympic match, encouraged him.
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| Olympic games 1928 |
First Indian woman player in Naura Olympics.
13 Indian athletes under the British flag participated in the 1924 Olympic Games held in Paris.
This time also no Indian player could win a medal.
The special thing is that for the first time a female athlete from India participated in the Olympic Games. This woman was British-born tennis player Nora Margaret Polley.
Born in India, died in Britain.
Nora Margate Polly was born on 29 July 1894 in Bengal. And in 1947 she returned to Britain, in 1988, at the age of 94, she died in Britain.
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