The Hockey Paper runs the rule over a wonderful Paris Olympics 2024 hockey competition
Stand out team: China
Fourth in their Pool and a first final since Beijing 2008. For China, this was a wonderful achievement. Alyson Annan took on the job before the 2022 World Cup, enlisted an array of coaching talent to follow in her footsteps, and set about instilling confidence and skill to the Chinese. There are over 2,000 players in China, in a country of millions. Annan stated that the challenge was to create a solid club system.
Star to watch: Argentina’s 18-year-old Zoe Diaz. A ‘killer attacker’ said her team-mates.
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