Amit Rohidas banned for one match, to overlook hockey semifinals in opposition to Germany at Paris Olympics | Paris Olympics 2024 Information – Occasions of India

Amit Rohidas banned for one match, to overlook hockey semifinals in opposition to Germany at Paris Olympics | Paris Olympics 2024 Information – Occasions of India

NEW DELHI: The Indian hockey crew participant Amit Rohidas has been suspended for a single sport on the Paris Olympics. Consequently, he shall be absent from India’s essential semi-final encounter in opposition to Germany, scheduled for Tuesday.
The suspension comes as a consequence of Rohidas being proven a crimson card throughout India’s quarter-final match in opposition to Nice Britain, which passed off on Sunday.The crimson card mechanically triggers a one-match ban, forcing the participant to sit down out the subsequent sport within the match.
“Amit Rohidas was suspended for one match for a breach of the FIH Code of Conduct which occurred throughout the India vs Nice Britain match on August 4,” the FIH official assertion learn.
“The suspension impacts match No. 35 (India’s semi-final match in opposition to Germany), the place Amit Rohidas won’t take part and India will play with a squad of 15 gamers solely.”
Rohidas, 31, clashed with Will Calnan, a British ahead, throughout the second quarter of the quarter-finals match in opposition to Nice Britain. Rohidas swung his hockey stick throughout Calnan’s face whereas making an attempt to flee from him within the midfield.
The on-field referee initially didn’t take into account the incident to be a grave infraction. Nonetheless, upon video referral, the choice was overturned, and Rohidas was given a crimson card for his actions.
The Indian males’s hockey crew managed to search out the again of the online shortly after, due to a objective from their captain, Harmanpreet Singh. Nonetheless, their celebration was short-lived as Lee Morton responded with a objective of his personal, leveling the rating.
India, bronze medallists from Tokyo 2020, will tackle Germany within the semi-finals of the Paris 2024 Olympics hockey match on Tuesday.