What an amazing Match!: Bommai congratulates team India

Team Udayavani, Aug 5, 2021, 10:10 AM IST

Bengaluru: Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai Congratulated the Indian men’s hockey team’s for winning bronze medal in the Tokyo Olympics.

Taking to Twitter the CM wrote, “What an amazing Match! Congratulations to Indian Men’s Hockey Team on winning the Bronze medal after defeating Germany with 5-4 Goals at #TokyoOlympics.”

“Proud Moment for every Indian !” he added.

A resolute Indian men’s hockey team rewrote history as it claimed an Olympic medal after 41 years, defeating a plucky Germany 5-4 to win the bronze in an edge-of-the-seat play-off match of the ongoing Games here on Thursday.

The eight-time former gold-winners, who battled a heartbreaking slump in the last four decades, made the resurgence of the last couple of years count in the best way possible with an Olympic medal.

Their bronze, which is worth its weight in gold for the sheer emotion and nostalgia that hockey invokes in the country, became India’s fifth medal at the ongoing Games.