GOING FOR HOCKEY GOLD:
India has an excellent pedigree in field hockey at the Olympics, but has rarely been able to replicate that success in the Asian Games arena. India, which won the last of its eight Olympics field hockey gold medals at Moscow in 1980, has won the Asian Games gold only twice -- in 1966 and 1998 -- both times in Bangkok. Three of those gold medals in the Olympics, though, had come before the country was partitioned into India and Pakistan. Pakistan has dominated India at the Asian Games with eight gold medals, the high point being a 7-1 drubbing at New Delhi in the 1982 final.
