Talk:Dhyan Chand
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Since when is Dhyan Chand considered the best hockey player ever and by who? This article needs major work. Joe 16:49, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
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This article needs a thorough rewrite to correct the errors and seperate facts from fiction. These are a few inconsistencies. I don't have books to do it properly, but will probably attempt a cleanup in a few days.
- An artist in Vienna depicted him as having eight arms. The popular story (hopefully true) is that the statue had four hands, and a later section of the article does mention it that way.
- He was supposidely so fast that TV analysis of his gameplay was rendered too slow! Not sure about the correctness of this but as per "Wills Book of Excellence : Hockey" Dhyan Chand was not a particularly fast athlete. What made him great was his incredible positional sense and anticipation.
- Adolf Hitler who left midway as he couldn't bear to see his "racially superior" team being demolished He left the ground because he could not bear a non-Aryan team doing too well, but offered to make Dhyan Chand a field marshal on the next day ? Something is not quite right.
- He had scored a total of 59 out of the team's tally of 175 that Olympics. India scored 101 or 102 goals in the first three Olympic games - from memory, it was 28 in Amsterdam, 35 at LA and 38 in Berlin. Dhyan Chand scored far less than 59.
- In 1956, at the age of 43, he retired from the army with the rank of Major. Born 1905. So one of the two numbers is incorrect.
- However the Arjuna award for sports excellence was never awarded to him. Doesn't mean much. Arjuna Award was started in 1961 and it is only recently that SAI attempted the trick of awarding it to old sportsmen.
- So great was the magic of Dhyan Chand that the Tokyo officials broke his hockey stick to search for a magnet inside, and tried to console themselves saying he had added some sort of glue. On one occasion, a lady from the audience asked Dhyan Chand to play with her walking stick instead. He scored goals even with them!
- When he was on his deathbed at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, he reportedly told a doctor that Indian hockey was dying.
- Fan incidents
Anything like these need very reliable sources. If not, it must be clearly mentioned as a legend. Tintin (talk) 13:56, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
