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 was refused to include in 1924 Olympic. Paris organizers refused to hockey on the basis of that the sport had no International governing body and hockey was reinstated. The French Association followed soon after, but this was not considered sufficient.
Field Hockey took its most important forward step in 1924 when the International Hockey Federation, the world governing body for the sport was founded in Paris under the initiative of Frenchman and Paul Leautey. Mr. Leautey, who would become the first President of the FIH, was motivated to action following hockey's omission from the program of the 1924 Paris Games.
Mr. Leautey called together representatives from seven National Federations to form the sport's international governing body, the Federation Internationale de Hockey sur Gazon. The six founding members, which represented both men's and women's hockey in their countries, were Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Spain and Switzerland.
The growth of the International Hockey Federation from its early beginnings has been most impressive. Denmark joined in 1925, the Dutch men in 1926, Turkey in 1927, and in 1928 the year of the Amsterdam Olympics Germany, Poland, Portugal and India joined. India's addition marked the membership of the first non-European country.
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By 1964, there were already 50 countries affiliated with the FIH, as well as three Continental Associations - Africa, Pan America and Asia - and in 1974, there were 71 members. Today, the International Hockey Federation consists of five Continental Associations, Europe and Oceania have since joined and 127 member associations.
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