Hockey upset over ‘timekeeping’ failure that rocked Commonwealth Games, India The world body (FIH) has been asked to immediately amend the rules and take strict action against technical officials who commit such errors.
The Indian women’s team was undone by a terrifying stopwatch fox pass by technical officials in the shoot-out against Australia in the CWG semi-final on Saturday, which eventually went down 0-3 after 60 minutes of a 1-1 stalemate.
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Rosie Malone foiled Australia’s first attempt in a penalty shoot-out as India captain Savita Punia pulled off an excellent block. But after a timekeeping error, the striker got a second chance and this time he scored which changed the pace of the game.
The incident sparked a major uproar with the International Hockey Federation (FIH) immediately apologizing for human error and ordering a review.
In a letter to FIH CEO Thierry Weil, HI Chief Executive Elena Norman highlighted that India has always been on the receiving side of such errors.
“Errors have been occurring during penalty shoot-out situations, which have consistently deprived India of a meaningful match result in important events such as the Champions Trophy 2016, Junior Women. World Cup 2021, Tokyo Olympics 2021 and now in Commonwealth Games 2022.
Norman claimed in his letter, “The irony is that all the above examples have happened while India is playing.”
Hockey India official asked the FIH to resolve the matter on priority so that other teams do not face similar incidents in future.
“… in case of failure from the team of technical officers, there is nothing concrete in the Regulations that needs to be followed by the participating team to ensure a ‘fair and correct’ decision.
Norman wrote, “Players, coaches, hockey fans across the country are required by the FIH to take the matter on a series note and to amend the rules immediately, giving a participating team the opportunity of a fair and correct decision.” allows leverage.”
“… the technical officers whose actions denies ‘fair and correct’ judgment to the participant should not be appointed to major competitions and adequate investigations shall be conducted to ensure that such a situation does not recur in the future.” should be known.”
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Norman said the time had come for the FIH to address the issue without brushing it aside as a “human error”.
“With the current situation, simply letting go of the situation by saying it was a ‘human error’ is giving technical executives more opportunities and excuses not to concentrate or not to concentrate, to make decisions as they wish and to be accountable.” Don’t be
“The disappointment is that these officials are re-appointed for big events and in such a situation, players, coaches and teams have to bear the brunt of such poor decisions,” the HI official said.
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