The 2000 Olympics

Hockey and the Olympic Games From the Nile Valley to the five Balbir Singhs, hockey has one of the longest and most illustrious histories of any sport in the Olympic Games. Archaeologists have found 4000-year-old sketches of men playing a version of hockey in the Nile Valley of Egypt. While the drawings suggest no shin pads, mouthguards or synthetic surfaces, the primitive stick-and-rock games provide one of the oldest links to today's Olympic Games. Similar …

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