{"id":333167,"date":"2021-08-02T00:57:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T06:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=333167"},"modified":"2021-08-02T00:57:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T06:27:15","slug":"tokyo-olympics-indian-womens-hockey-team-enter-semi-finals-beat-australia-by-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/tokyo-olympics-indian-womens-hockey-team-enter-semi-finals-beat-australia-by-1-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Olympics: Indian Women\u2019s Hockey team enter semi- finals, beat Australia by 1-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-333168\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/thequint_2021-08_1187cc0b-afdd-48d9-88de-4e80ad52f0b5_E7wrL0PVEAI8Q5S.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3606\" height=\"2028\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/thequint_2021-08_1187cc0b-afdd-48d9-88de-4e80ad52f0b5_E7wrL0PVEAI8Q5S.jpg 3606w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/thequint_2021-08_1187cc0b-afdd-48d9-88de-4e80ad52f0b5_E7wrL0PVEAI8Q5S-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/thequint_2021-08_1187cc0b-afdd-48d9-88de-4e80ad52f0b5_E7wrL0PVEAI8Q5S-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/thequint_2021-08_1187cc0b-afdd-48d9-88de-4e80ad52f0b5_E7wrL0PVEAI8Q5S-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/thequint_2021-08_1187cc0b-afdd-48d9-88de-4e80ad52f0b5_E7wrL0PVEAI8Q5S-696x391.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/thequint_2021-08_1187cc0b-afdd-48d9-88de-4e80ad52f0b5_E7wrL0PVEAI8Q5S-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/thequint_2021-08_1187cc0b-afdd-48d9-88de-4e80ad52f0b5_E7wrL0PVEAI8Q5S-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/08\/thequint_2021-08_1187cc0b-afdd-48d9-88de-4e80ad52f0b5_E7wrL0PVEAI8Q5S-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3606px) 100vw, 3606px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Indian women\u2019s hockey team enters semi- finals for the first time ever as it registered one of its major wins in history with a stunning 1-0 win over three-time champions Australia 1-0 to reach their maiden semi-finals in women&#8217;s hockey at the Olympics in Tokyo on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>India scored the victory goal after Gurjit Kaur scored from a penalty corner in the 22nd minute to put India in the last-4 of the Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>Australia protected three back-back-to-back penalty corners soon, but the Indian defence, led by Savita and Deep Grace Ekka, stood like a rock in front of the goal.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian women made a brilliant comeback after losing their first three matches against Netherlands, Germany and defending champions Great Britain, defeating higher-ranked Ireland 1-0 and overpowering South Africa 4-3 to keep themselves in the hunt.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian women\u2019s hockey team enters semi- finals for the first time ever as it registered one of its major wins in history with a stunning 1-0 win over three-time champions Australia 1-0 to reach their maiden semi-finals in women&#8217;s hockey at the Olympics in Tokyo on Monday. India scored the victory goal after Gurjit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":333168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14486],"tags":[14488,14487],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333169,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333167\/revisions\/333169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/333168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}