National Sports Day is celebrated every year on 29th August in India to commemorate the birth anniversary of Major Dhyan Chand Singh.
Over the years, the dynamics of sport has changed, and many greats have come and gone. No one was like Dhyan Chand.
Major Dhyan Chnad had won three Olympic gold medals, in 1928, 1932, and 1936
The Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award was initiated in 1991, with Viswanathan Anand being the first recipient.
India secured their first Olympic gold medal in the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, with Dhyan Chand scoring three hat-tricks.
The 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles saw India score 35 goals in two games, including defeating the USA 24-1.
Leslie Claudius and Udham Singh are the only players to have won four medals for India in the Olympics.
Datt played a very important part when India was continuing its hockey dominance after independence with Olympic gold medals in 1948 and 1952. He was the last surviving member of t...
Dhyan Chand's wizardry was so much that his performances in the 1936 Berlin Olympics impressed Adolf Hitler.