Oman will now host one of the crucial males’s hockey Olympic Qualifiers upcoming the sector frame (FIH) withdrew the event from Pakistan because of infighting between the nationwide federation and the rustic’s Sports activities Board. The Global Hockey Federation introduced that event will probably be held in Muscat from January 15 to 21 later life. The alternative 3 FIH Hockey Olympic Qualifiers will probably be performed in China (ladies’s – January 15-21 2024) and Spain (ladies’s and males’s – January 13-21).
“Following FIH’s decision to withdraw the hosting of one of the Men’s FIH Hockey Olympic Qualifiers from Pakistan due to the recent developments in the governance situation of the Pakistan Hockey Federation, this event will now be hosted by another Asian nation, namely Oman, which had already expressed an interest to bid at an early stage, during the bidding phase,” the Global Hockey Federation mentioned in a commentary.
Six ladies’s and as many males’s groups will qualify for Paris Olympics via those Olympic Qualifiers, for which the taking part groups from Oceania and Europe are already recognized.
Australia and the Netherlands (ladies’s and males’s) have already fix their spot on the Paris Video games via profitable the 2023 Oceania Cup and EuroHockey Championships respectively, and joined hosts France.
The Asian Video games – being performed lately in Hangzhou, China – in addition to the then Pan American Video games and African Hockey Street to Paris event will decide the too much groups qualifying without delay for later life’s Olympics (3 ladies’s and three males’s groups) in addition to the groups enjoying the FIH Hockey Olympic Qualifiers.
Hockey pageant on the Paris Olympics will jerk park from July 27 to August 9 later life.
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