"Today Pakistan team is out of the Olympics, we have won three Olympics and four world titles... that's disappointing and we are to blame ourselves for this." "It's a big setback that our field hockey team will be missing for the first time," said Pakistan Olympic Association president Arif Hassan. Despite producing world-class cricketers, hockey players and squash champions in 68 years since independence, Pakistan's Olympic medal tally is an imperfect 10 - eight in field hockey and only two individual. When 206 nations march past during the Rio Olympics opening ceremony, a mere seven-athlete team will represent Pakistan - one fewer than the contingent sent by tiny Atlantic island Bermuda. The malaise worsened as Pakistan failed to qualify for the World Cup in 2014 and then missed out on qualifying for Rio.

Source: dna August 02, 2016 13:30 UTC