Yesterday, FIH launched the schedule for the boys’s and ladies’s Olympic area hockey tournaments at Paris 2024.
And as we posited just a few weeks in the past, the US is certainly within the Group of Demise.
The event begins July twenty seventh in opposition to Pan American big Argentina, which received the 2010 FIH World Cup and eight Champions’ Trophies. Two days later, the States tackle 1992 Olympic gold-medalists Spain.
Maybe the cruelest little bit of scheduling happens afterwards. On July 31, the Individuals get 2000 Olympic gold medalist Australia. A mere 24 hours later, the workforce takes on Rio 2016 winners Nice Britain.
It’s nearly unfair. Who is aware of whether or not the ultimate pool match Aug. 3 in opposition to South Africa will imply something?
The best way I see it, the Individuals want no less than two wins within the preliminaries to have any likelihood in any respect of creating the quarterfinal spherical; solely the highest 4 groups in every pool make it into the knockout bracket, the place something can occur. And often does.
It’s not a simple street, however as we’ve all the time mentioned, nothing value doing is simple.