Hockey News -
At 2008 Olympic Qualifier, Santiago, Chile

India bt Chile 4-1 (3-0)

Goal Scored -
India - Prabhjot Singh 9', V.R. Raghunath 23' & (PC) 61', Bharath 24'
Chile - Felipe Montegu (PC) 64'

Other Matches -
Great Britain bt Austria 4-0
Russia bt Mexico 9-1

Again Indian team failed to impress with their game or game plan ... Same old problems of poor marking, unnecessary hitting, faulty ball traping and poor passing ... Indian team need lot more improvement if we really want to qualify for Olympics.
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Badminton News -
At $5K Croatian International 2008, Zagreb

[SF] Aditi MUTATKAR (IND,89) l (Q) Kaori IMABEPPU (JPN,139)

[SF] (1) Rupesh KUMAR (IND)/ Sanave THOMAS (IND) bt Vladimir METODIEV (BUL)/ Krasimir YANKOV (BUL) 21-5 21-6
[SF] Akshay DEWALKAR (IND)/ Diju V (IND) l Jakub BITMAN (CZE)/ Zvonimir ÐURKINJAK (CRO) 21-15 14-21 21-19

[F] (1) Rupesh KUMAR (IND)/ Sanave THOMAS (IND) bt Jakub BITMAN (CZE)/ Zvonimir ÐURKINJAK (CRO) 21-9 21-14

Kaori scored surprisng win over Aditi ... But Rupesh and Sanave performed as per their ranking to win Croatian International title.