{"id":22707,"date":"2021-08-02T10:53:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T05:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=131972"},"modified":"2021-08-02T10:54:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T05:24:29","slug":"tokyo-olympics-indian-women-hockey-team-defeats-world-no-2-australia-to-advance-into-the-olympic-semifinal-for-the-first-time-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/olympics\/tokyo-olympics-indian-women-hockey-team-defeats-world-no-2-australia-to-advance-into-the-olympic-semifinal-for-the-first-time-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo Olympics: Indian women\u2019s hockey team defeats world No. 2 Australia to advance into the Olympic semifinal for the first time in history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian women\u2019s hockey team attempts a big upset by knocking out world number one Australia to progress to the semifinal for the first time in history. They beat them 1-0 in the quarter-finals at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday. Gurjit Kaur scored the only goal of the game for India.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE!!! \ud83d\ude4c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IND?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IND<\/a> beat and knock out world no. 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AUS?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AUS<\/a> in the quarter-final match of women\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/hockey?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#hockey<\/a> by 1-0 to seal their spot in SEMI-FINAL for the first time ever! \ud83d\ude0d\ud83d\udc4f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tokyo2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tokyo2020<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StrongerTogether?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StrongerTogether<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UnitedByEmotion?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UnitedByEmotion<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HgBcsHg5Ob\">pic.twitter.com\/HgBcsHg5Ob<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Olympic Khel (@OlympicKhel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OlympicKhel\/status\/1422054264751353857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Australia who was among for their first medal since their victory in Sydney in the year 2000 had a chance in the last five minutes of the game. They utilized their Video referral and were provided with a Penalty Corner but the Women in Blue managed to keep their shot away from the net.<\/p>\n<p>India kept the opponents under difficulty with their strong defence and the Australians\u2019 attack were not enough to pass past the defenders and score. Savita Punia\u2019s team supervised to keep the 1-0 lead unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>The first quarter ended goalless draw while in the second, Gurjit Kaur scored with a Penalty Corner to keep her side ahead of the opposition from one goal difference and this stayed intact for the entire game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A goal that will go in the history books! \ud83d\ude4c<\/p>\n<p>Watch Gurjit Kaur's brilliant drag flick that led <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IND?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IND<\/a> to a 1-0 win over <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AUS?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AUS<\/a> in an epic quarter-final \ud83d\ude0d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tokyo2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tokyo2020<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UnitedByEmotion?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UnitedByEmotion<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StrongerTogether?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StrongerTogether<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Hockey?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Hockey<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BestOfTokyo?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BestOfTokyo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MkXqjprLxo\">pic.twitter.com\/MkXqjprLxo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Olympic Khel (@OlympicKhel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OlympicKhel\/status\/1422060427681308673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Argentina is the first team who arrived at the semifinal beating Germany by 3-0. They beat the Germans to advance to the semis for the first time since 2012.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s Starting XI: Savita (GK), Rani (C), Gurjit Kaur, Deep Grace Ekka, Udita, Nisha, Neha, Monika, Navjot Kaur, Navneet Kaur, Vandana Katariya.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian women hockey team created history at the Tokyo Olympics by advancing to the semifinal for the first time defeating world number two Australia 1-0 on Monday. Gurjit Kaur scored the only goal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":42893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[281,1732,2176,1555,2228,2125,2379,638],"class_list":["post-22707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-olympics","tag-hockey","tag-hockey-india","tag-indian-womens-hockey-team","tag-tokyo","tag-tokyo-2020","tag-tokyo-games","tag-tokyo-games-2020","tag-tokyo-olympics"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}