Amit Rohidas On Red Card: The Indian hockey team won the bronze medal in the Paris Olympics. In this way, Team India managed to win a medal in the second consecutive Olympics. Earlier, the Indian hockey team had won the bronze medal in the Tokyo Olympics 2020. However, Indian player Amit Rohidas was shown a red card in the quarter-final match of the Paris Olympics. After which he could not play in the semi-finals. Now Amit Rohidas’s statement has come on this. Amit Rohidas said that he could not sleep that night, he said that he did not intentionally hit the hockey stick to the opponent player.
Amit Rohidas further said that he is grateful to his teammates that no one questioned him when he got a red card in the quarterfinal match against Great Britain. In fact, after Amit Rohidas got a red card, the Indian team had to play with 10 players for the last 42 minutes. Amit Rohidas says that I regret missing out on the semifinal match due to a one-match suspension, it was a very important match. The whole country and my teammates were with me. He also says that the team never let me get emotionally out, my focus was just on the next match.
It is worth noting that Amit Rohidas had to leave the field 42 minutes before the final hooter against Great Britain. Actually, Amit Rohidas’s stick inadvertently hit the opponent player Will Callanan. Although the on-field umpire did not consider this incident serious, but after the video referral he had to change his decision. Due to this decision, Rohidas could not play the semi-final match against Germany. At the same time, the Indian team had to face a 2-3 defeat in the semi-final against Germany.
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