Prepared detailed plan for senior men, women team’s competitions ahead of Olympics: Hockey India

Hockey India on Wednesday mentioned it has drawn up an inventory of competitions each for the senior women and men’s groups within the run-up to subsequent 12 months’s Tokyo Olympics.

The detailed plan includes enjoying a variety of matches towards prime groups on the planet.

In a Special Congress held through a video convention, the chief board members and state items of the HI additionally mentioned varied choices to pave the way in which for restarting the game as soon as the COVID-19 pandemic-forced lockdown is lifted.

Indian Olympic Association (IOA) President Narinder Batra took half within the digital assembly as a particular invitee.

HI High Performance Director David John highlighted the impression of the pandemic on preparations for the Tokyo Games and mentioned that a regular working process (SOP) has been submitted to SAI final month for all nationwide athletes.

Besides, a calendar of matches and tournaments has been drawn up for all 4 groups (senior and junior women and men) for subsequent 12 months.

“The senior men’s team have 10 FIH Hockey Pro League matches to be played to fulfil their commitments from the 2020 season. Apart from two matches versus New Zealand in India, the remaining 8 matches are scheduled to be played in Germany, Great Britain, Argentina and Spain,” the HI mentioned in a launch.

“The Indian women’s team will need to finalise overseas tours to countries that that have relaxed their travel restrictions and provide a high level of competition such as Netherlands, Germany, Australia and New Zealand.

“It would be ideal for the team to play around 10–14 competitive matches against above opposition prior to Tokyo Olympic Games,” it mentioned.

The HI mentioned relying on the state of affairs, the Indian women and men’s groups will play the Asian Champions Trophy to be organised by the Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) previous to the Olympics, which is able to present publicity to the staff.

“The national camps and international exposures for the senior men and senior women teams have been scheduled according to FIH calendar and will be submitted in the ACTC for 2020/21 once FIH and AHF finalise their dates.”Hockey India mentioned it has ready an SOP to be adopted on the state and nationwide stage occasions after the pandemic subsides.

“As a first step towards resuming activities depending on permissions provided by Government of India and state governments, HI has issued a 20-page dossier to it’s member units which provides a minimum standard that needs to be followed when hockey activities resume in their respective states,” the HI mentioned.

“The new Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) includes educating athletes, sanitising the entire facility prior to any event as well as encouraging all participants to share their details not just with organisers but also with health authorities,” it mentioned.

The pointers additionally embrace pre-event, during-event and post-event protocols, and procedures to be adopted when groups journey for home competitions.

“Additionally, foreseeing the new social norms that could last up to 12-18 months, Hockey India proposed to update the Constitution with a provision to allow video conference meetings as official meetings with minutes to be signed by the chairman of the meeting,” the discharge mentioned.

HI additionally introduced venues for the National Championships — males, ladies and junior ranges.

Maharashtra will host the 2021 Senior Men National Championship whereas Uttar Pradesh Hockey will organise the corresponding ladies’s occasion.

The 2021 Junior Men’s National Championship and Sub Junior Men’s National Championship will likely be hosted by Haryana whereas the corresponding ladies’s occasions will likely be held in Jharkhand.

The Congress additionally witnessed detailed discussions on registration course of for match officers and coaches on the Hockey India Member Unit Portal.