Hockey is an ancient world famous family sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to plot a ball, known as puck, into the opponent's net or goal, with a hockey stick. It is one of the sports which is the pre-historic pleasure of the man in stick and ball games. The game was first introduced in Asia. Modern hockey took its birth in England. Ancient Olympic Games, the website for providing gaming information present you the details of this game and other major international games and competitions.
The game of hockey came from the Irish. The first hockey club was established in Blackheath in 1861. In 1895, the first international match was played between England and Ireland. Hockey was included in the modern Olympic Games in1908. Even women had also accepted this rough and unruly game.
The game was introduced at the Summer Olympic Games in 1908 as a men's competition that took place in London. It was played by six teams, together with four from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. But, the game was dropped from the Olympics at the 1924 Paris Games because of an international sporting structure.
The International Hockey Federation was established in Paris in 1924 as a reply to the omission of the game from Olympics. In 1928 Games held in Amsterdam, men's hockey became a permanent feature.
The South Asian countries of India and Pakistan dominated the Olympics medal tally for a long period of time with either India or Pakistan by winning the men's gold medal in every Olympics from 1928 to 1968. Before 1948, India included Pakistan in the Olympic Games.
The first women hockey team played in Olympics was held at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Olympic field hockey games were first conducted on artificial turf at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games.