Ireland suffer second loss in Argentina
Japan inflicted a comprehensive 3-0 defeat on Ireland at the Champions Challenge 1 in Argentina on Sunday.
Japan inflicted a comprehensive 3-0 defeat on Ireland at the Champions Challenge 1 in Argentina on Sunday.
Andrew Meredith's reign as Ireland hockey coach began with a narrow 4-3 defeat to hosts Argentina in Quilmes.
New Zealander Darren Smith has been named as the new coach of the Ireland women's hockey team.
Ireland national men's hockey coach Andrew Meredith has announced a squad of 18 for the upcoming Champions Challenge I in Quilmes, Argentina from 24 November to 2 December.
The Irish men's hockey team will travel to the Hockey Champions Challenge 1 in Argentina after raising the money to travel from various benefactors.
Ireland suffered an agonising 2-1 defeat in the semi-final of the Electric Ireland FIH Champions Challenge I at UCD.
Ireland beat Belgium 2-1 in the quarter finals of the Electric Ireland FIH Champions Challenge at UCD with a goal in the final seconds of extra time.
Jan Philipp Rabente was the unlikely hero as he scored twice as Germany successfully defended their Olympic title with a 2-1 victory over The Netherlands.
Australia's men beat Britain 3-1 to win hockey bronze, their sixth consecutive Olympic medal, having dominated the second half against the hosts.
Champions Netherlands successfully defended their title with a 2-0 win that spoiled Argentina captain Luciana Aymar's farewell to international hockey on her 35th birthday.
Great Britain's women secured only the second Olympic bronze medal in their history with victory over New Zealand at the Riverbank Area.
The Netherlands dished out a 9-2 thrashing to Britain in their semi-final to advance to the men's Olympic hockey final against defending champions Germany.
World champions Argentina eliminated Britain's women with a 2-1 defeat and will fight over hockey gold with reigning Olympic champions the Netherlands.
Defending champions the Netherlands beat New Zealand 3-1 in a penalty shootout on Wednesday to reach the women's Olympic hockey final.
Britain's men's hockey team reached their first Olympic semi-final in 24 years with a 1-1 draw against Spain in a tense game on Tuesday which was mired in late controversy.
Argentina's 2-1 win over New Zealand in the women's hockey event on Thursday kept the world's number two team in contention to qualify from the group stages after a mixed start to the tournament.
Britain's women's hockey team started to resemble serious Olympic medal contenders on Tuesday after a dramatic 5-3 victory over South Korea put them top of their group.
Australia have suffered a significant blow just weeks before the Olympics after striker Des Abbott was dropped from the squad because of injury.
Australia's men's team may be looking to hold all the sport's major titles by winning gold at the London Olympics but coach Ric Charlesworth was far from content as his team headed to the Games.
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