{"id":152189,"date":"2021-08-06T11:12:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T05:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=152189"},"modified":"2021-08-06T13:04:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T07:34:30","slug":"tokyo-olympics-indian-womens-hockey-team-lose-bronze-medal-match-to-great-britain-pm-modi-shah-rukh-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/sports-news\/tokyo-olympics-indian-womens-hockey-team-lose-bronze-medal-match-to-great-britain-pm-modi-shah-rukh-khan\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian women&#8217;s hockey team lose bronze medal match to Great Britain, PM Modi, Shah Rukh Khan react"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Close to securing its maiden Olympic medal, the Indian women\u2019s hockey team lost the bronze medal match to Great Britain by 3-4 at the ongoing Games in Tokyo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the second quarter, India was trailing 0-2 but the double strike from Gurjit Kaur helped them come back in the contest. Then scores by Vandana Katariya took India to a 3-2 lead at the halfway stage. However, Great Britain equalised in the third quarter, and scored again early in the final 15 minutes, to turn around the bronze medal clash in their favour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"5\">The heartbreak came a day after the Indian men\u2019s hockey team defeated Germany and clinched the bronze medal after 41 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hailing the efforts of the women\u2019s hockey team at the Olympics, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted that it narrowly missed a medal but it reflects the spirit of new India, where we give our best and scale new frontiers. The success at #Tokyo2020 will motivate young daughters of India to take up Hockey and excel in it, Proud of this team, he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We narrowly missed a medal in Women\u2019s Hockey but this team reflects the spirit of New India- where we give our best and scale new frontiers. More importantly, their success at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tokyo2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tokyo2020<\/a> will motivate young daughters of India to take up Hockey and excel in it. Proud of this team.<\/p>&mdash; Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/narendramodi\/status\/1423488701728919557?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 6, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Further, Modi said people will always remember the great performance of the women\u2019s hockey team at the Tokyo Olympics. Each and every member of the team is blessed with remarkable courage, skill, and resilience, India is proud of this outstanding team, the prime minister added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/assam-mizoram-de-escalate-tension\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/assam-mizoram-de-escalate-tension\/\">Assam, Mizoram hold talks to de-escalate tension, say no fresh deployment by states<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We will always remember the great performance of our Women\u2019s Hockey Team at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tokyo2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tokyo2020<\/a>. They gave their best throughout. Each and every member of the team is blessed with remarkable courage, skill and resilience. India is proud of this outstanding team.<\/p>&mdash; Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/narendramodi\/status\/1423488587010478082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 6, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Minutes after the India women&#8217;s hockey team lost, Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan expressed his heartbreak in a tweet. He consoled the team for the loss and lauded them for inspiring the nation. He wrote, Heartbreak!!! But all reasons to hold our heads high. Well played Indian Women\u2019s Hockey Team. You all inspired everyone in India. That itself is a victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Heartbreak!!! But all reasons to hold our heads high. Well played Indian Women\u2019s Hockey Team. You all inspired everyone in India. That itself is a victory.<\/p>&mdash; Shah Rukh Khan (@iamsrk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iamsrk\/status\/1423484214452768769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 6, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"5\">Nevertheless, the Indian women&#8217;s hockey team had already made history by entering the semifinals of the Games for the first time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"5\">Meanwhile, the world no-4 Great Britain were gold-winners in the 2016 Rio Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0915\u093e\u0902\u0938\u094d\u092f \u092a\u0926\u0915 \u091c\u0940\u0924\u0928\u0947 \u0915\u0947 \u092c\u093e\u0926 \u092d\u093e\u0930\u0924\u0940\u092f \u0939\u0949\u0915\u0940 \u091f\u0940\u092e \u0915\u0947 \u0916\u093f\u0932\u093e\u0921\u093c\u093f\u092f\u094b\u0902 \u092a\u0930 \u0907\u0928\u093e\u092e \u0915\u0940 \u092c\u093e\u0930\u093f\u0936 \u0936\u0941\u0930\u0942 |\" width=\"740\" height=\"555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3tbUc2dDM8E?start=34&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close to securing its maiden Olympic medal, the Indian women\u2019s hockey team lost the bronze medal match to Great Britain by 3-4 at the ongoing Games in Tokyo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":152208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,6],"tags":[104824,104728,165,1990,77885],"yst_prominent_words":[9317,46121,79303,40253,3704,3887,14970,17922,4396,13053],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2021\/08\/06111226\/Hockey-team-women.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152189"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=152189"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=152189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->