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Tuesday 17 January 2012

Olympic Field Hockey Rules - Officiating

Field hockey is a popular sport for men and women in many countries around the world. In most countries in which ice hockey is not very prominent, it is simply known as hockey. The International Hockey Federation (FIH) is the international governing body of the field hockey. In 1975, the rules for men and women were published in a common rulebook for the first time, five years before women began Olympic field hockey competition. Generally, some changes have been made not just to improve the quality of play in terms of speed and skill, but also to ensure safety and respond to technical advances.

Women Field Hockey Match in Olympics

Olympic Field Hockey is defined as to hit the ball with an L-shaped stick into the opponent's goal, while the opposing goalkeeper tries to prevent the ball from going in the goal. Each game begins with a coin toss to determine which team will start the game with a "center pass" the other team will start the second 35-minute half in the same fashion.

Olympic Field Hockey Rules – Officiating

Two umpires are on the field throughout a match. When one penalizes a specific player for dangerous play, the player receives a green card for a warning, a yellow card for a suspension of at least five minutes and a red card for banishment from the game. Unlike football, a player may receive more than one card of the same color, although a second and subsequent card cannot be of a "lower" color than one previously issued, and in the case of a second yellow card the temporary suspension would be expected to be of considerably longer duration than the first.

Umpire Suspended Women Field Hockey Player For Five Minute

However, local playing conditions may mandate that cards are awarded only progressively, and not allow second awards. Umpires have a good deal of discretion. They need not call a penalty if they believe the infraction has no bearing on the game.

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Olympic Field Hockey Rules - Scoring

In 1975, the rules for men and women field hockey were published in a common rulebook for the first time, five years before women began Olympic field hockey competition. The complete rules of field hockey are presented on web site of the International Hockey Federation (FIH). Olympic field hockey is defined as to hit the ball with an L-shaped stick into the opponent's goal, while the opposing goalkeeper tries to prevent the ball from going in the goal. Each game begins with a coin toss to determine which team will start the game with a "center pass" the other team will start the second 35-minute half in the same fashion.

Scoring Rules

Two umpires are on the field throughout a match. The umpire decides whether such action has resulted in dangerous play that calls for a penalty. Players may not use their bodies or sticks to prevent opponents from getting at the ball. A goal counts only if the ball is struck from within the shooting circle, or as the result of a penalty corner or a penalty stroke awarded to the non-offending team after a major penalty is called.

Field Hockey Umpire

In a penalty corner, awarded for fouls taking place within the shooting circle, an attacker will pass the ball from the back line (where the goal is) to teammates waiting just outside the shooting circle, and in a frenzy of activity, defenders will rush in to try to stop them from scoring.

Field Hockey Penalty Corner

On a penalty stroke, usually awarded after a defender has committed an infraction to stop what appeared to be a likely goal, an attacker goes one-on-one against the goalkeeper from 7 yards out, with no other players involved from either side.

Field Hockey Penalty Stork

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Olympic Field Hockey Rules

In 1975, the rules for men and women field hockey were published in a common rulebook for the first time, five years before women began Olympic field hockey competition. The complete rules of field hockey are presented on web site of the International Hockey Federation (FIH). The International Hockey Federation (FIH) is the international governing body of the field hockey and had charged with regulating the sport, and since 1970, the group has rarely gone for more than a year or two without introducing a rule change. Generally, these changes have been made not just to improve the quality of play in terms of speed and skill, but also to ensure safety and respond to technical advances.

Olympic field hockey is defined as to hit the ball with an L-shaped stick into the opponent's goal, while the opposing goalkeeper tries to prevent the ball from going in the goal. The field players must use the flat side of the head of their stick to control the ball, while goalkeepers may kick the ball or use their hands, as long as they are within the semicircular area in front of the cage known as the shooting circle. Generally, the ball is to be kept on the ground while in play, although a player may scoop or flick it off the ground to pass it to a teammate. Two umpires are on the field throughout a match. The umpire decides whether such action has resulted in dangerous play that calls for a penalty. Players may not use their bodies or sticks to prevent opponents from getting at the ball.

Free hits are awarded in the event of a foul, usually from the spot where the foul took place, and if a player hits a ball out of bounds, an opponent pushes it back in. In both cases, players from the defending team must stand at least 5 yards away. If play stops for any reason other than a penalty, a "bully" may decide possession: Two opposing players face off, and they strike their sticks together before competing for the ball on the ground between them.

Each game begins with a coin toss to determine which team will start the game with a "center pass" the other team will start the second 35-minute half in the same fashion. If the game is tied after the two halves, it goes into overtime, which ends when a goal is scored. If, after two overtime periods of 7 minutes, 30 seconds, neither team has scored, a penalty stroke competition decides a winner.

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Thursday 29 December 2011

Olympics Hockey - Introduction

Hockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick. Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks.

Men's field hockey was introduced for the first time to the Summer Games in 1908 London Summer Olympics with six teams, including four from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland . There was no bronze medal match for the 1908 Games in London. The event was excluded from the schedule due to lack of international structure.

Men's Fielg Hockey

Men's hockey became a regular event after the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Games . Since 1968, various teams from around the world have seen gold-medal success at the Olympics. Women's hockey has been included in the Olympic schedule much later in the 1980 Moscow Games. At the 1976 Montreal Olympics , hockey was played on artificial turf for the first time.

The thirtieth Summer Games will be held in the year 2012 in the London Olympic Stadium in London. There will be 300 events in 26 sports in the Thirtieth Summer Games in 2012. Hockey is included in the schedule.

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Indoor Field Hockey

Indoor Field Hockey is an indoor different of traditional outdoor field hockey. The small field and sideboards make indoor field hockey a quick, technical and physical game. Indoor field hockey is commonly called indoor hockey in the countries where rink hockey is not played. Indoor field hockey is not to be confused with other indoor hockey variants such as rink hockey or floorball.

Indoor Field Hockey is traditionally and mainly played as a pastime by outdoor field hockey players during the off-season, when the outdoor pitches are frozen, or alternatively conditions are too hot for outdoor play. Indoor field hockey is played in regular national and international championships. The first Indoor Field Hockey World Cup was organized in 2003 and only those countries are competed which do not compete at the highest level of the outdoor game.

Indoor Field Hockey playing field is smaller than the outdoor pitch and the goals are smaller than a field hockey. Indoor field hockey consist of 12 players team with 6 players on the pitch, 5 field players and 1 goalkeeper. Internationally the game is divided into 2 half of 20 minutes. The playing rules of indoor field hockey is that players may not hit the ball, but only push it or deflect it, and may not raise the ball except in the shooting circle, with the purpose of scoring a goal. The indoor field hockey goals are smaller than a field hockey while balls and the sticks are similar.

Indoor field hockey is often an ideal game for field hockey players to develop vision on and off the ball, developing a better understanding of tactics and set plays.

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Tuesday 13 December 2011

Hockey – Outdoor Field of play

Field Hockey or Hockey is a stick and ball team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks. Hockey is traditionally played on grass, but more often it is played on synthetic surfaces. It is most commonly known simply as "hockey" however, the name field hockey is used in countries in which the word hockey is generally reserved for another form of hockey, such as ice hockey or street hockey.

Field Hockey

The field of play is rectangular, 91.40 meters long and 55.00 meters wide. Side-lines mark the longer perimeters of the field; backlines mark the shorter perimeters of the field. The goal-lines are the parts of the back-lines between the goal-posts. A centre-line is marked across the middle of the field. Lines known as 23 meters lines are marked across the field 22.90 meters from each back-line. Areas referred to as the circles are marked inside the field around the goals and opposite the centers of the backlines. Penalty spots 150 mm in diameter are marked in front of the centre of each goal with the centre of each spot 6.40 meters from the inner edge of the goal-line. All lines are 75 mm wide and are part of the field of play. Flag-posts between 1.20 and 1.50 meters in height are placed at each corner of the field. Goals are positioned outside the field of play at the centre of and touching each back-line.

Outdoor Field of Play

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Hockey - Field Hockey Pitch

Field Hockey or Hockey is a stick and ball team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks. Hockey is traditionally played on grass, but more often it is played on synthetic surfaces. It is most commonly known simply as "hockey" however, the name field hockey is used in countries in which the word hockey is generally reserved for another form of hockey, such as ice hockey or street hockey.

Traditional grass pitches are far less common in modern hockey with most hockeys being played on synthetic surfaces. Since the 1970s, sand-based pitches were favored as they dramatically speed up the pace of the game. However, in recent years there has been a massive increase in the number of "water-based" artificial turfs.

Traditional Grass Pitch

Water-based synthetic turfs enable the ball to be transferred more quickly than on the original sand-based surfaces and it is this characteristic that has made them the surface of choice for international and national league competitions. Water-based surfaces are also less abrasive than the sand-based variety and hence reduce the level of injury to players when they come into contact with the surface.

Water-Based Artificial Pitch

The FIH are now proposing that new surfaces being laid should be of a hybrid variety which require less watering. This is due to the negative ecological effects of the high water requirements of water-based synthetic fields.

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