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Most of the players coming from a humble background, the Indian women's hockey team created history
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Most of the players coming from a humble background, the Indian women's hockey team created history, enter the semifinals at the Tokyo Olympics.
India defeated Australia 1-0 in the quarterfinals.
They will next face Argentina in the semifinals. The Indian hockey team lead by Rani Rampal has created history as it is for the first time that Indian women's hockey has entered into the semi-finals of the quadrennial games.
In the 1980 Olympics, the tournament was played on a league format and there was no semifinals.
A maximum of the Indian women's team members hails from a humble background and despite limited facilities and financial hardships, they kept on pursuing the sport and eventually made the country proud.
From living in a shanty to gifting her parents a double-storey house in 2018; from having to go by the position of stars to wake up for early morning training to having a high-end Apple watch and electronic gadgets; from being expelled from her first junior national camp for poor fitness to becoming India team captain, it has been a rollercoaster ride for the daughter of a cart-puller from Shahbad, Haryana.
Neha Goel, who hails from Sonipat, had a disturbed childhood and had to even work in a cycle factory to support her mother in running the house.
Every player in the squad has a story of grit and determination.