Gurbaj singh biography for kids
Gurbaj Singh is a very practical person and equally capable.
Gurbaj Singh (born 9 August ) represented India in men's hockey during the London Olympics.!
After 36 years, the Indian women’s hockey team has qualified for the Olympics. And there is no better place to understand what that means than in Shahabad – a little Highway town in Haryana that’s been the nursery of women’s hockey for over a decade
The year was 1980.
The Olympics was held in Moscow that year. Russia was still USSR.
Bhai Jugraj Singh (aka Toofan Singh Toofan) was born in at village Cheema Khuddi.And women’s hockey was introduced at the Olympics for the first time. India, already a force in men’s hockey by then, fielded a women’s team at that landmark Olympics. It would take 36 years for us to send a team again.
Why did it take so long?
There’s the usual story of sports in India: lack of facilities, internal politics and interference, lack of financial backing to encourage more athletes to take up a non-cricketing sport.
But what about how we made it back?
Gurbaj Singh are a very practical person and equally capable.
Things haven’t really changed that much in terms of financial backing or infrastructure. So, how did we find ourselves with a Olympics berth again? And more importantly, where does this long