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The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has announced that the men’s FIH Hockey Olympic Qualifiers for the Paris Summer Olympics 2024, which is scheduled to take place from January 15 to 21, is shifted from Pakistan to Oman.

The hosting rights of Hockey Olympic Qualifiers were taken away from Pakistan considering the recent suspensions of several Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) officials by the Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) in August. Moreover, PSB has also mandated fresh unbiased elections to be held within PHF.

Meanwhile, the other men’s qualifying tournaments of the Paris Olympics, which were scheduled to take place in Lahore will now be hosted by Valencia, Spain and Muscat, Oman.

A total of eight teams will feature in each of the Paris 2024 hockey qualifying tournaments, and the top three teams will qualify for the Paris 2024 Games, making a total of 12 teams per gender.

The seedings for the Olympic qualifiers will be finalized after the conclusion of all continental championships in 2023, moreover, the champions of these continental championships will directly qualify for Paris Olympics 2024.

The Netherlands and Australia have already booked their place for next year’s Summer Olympics after winning the EuroHockey Championship 2023 and the Oceania Cup respectively.

Meanwhile, one of the two women’s qualifying tournaments will be also hosted by Valencia and the other will take place in Changzhou, China. The women’s hockey qualifiers for the Paris Olympics will also follow the same format as the men’s qualifiers.

The hockey competition at the Paris Olympics 2024 will take place from July 27 to August 9, 2024, at Yves-du-Manoir stadium.

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BUDAPEST: Commonwealth Games (CWG) Gold medalist Arshad Nadeem on Friday secured his place for the final of the ongoing World Athletics Championship in Budapest, as well as, the Paris Olympics in 2024.

Arshad Nadeem started off the qualifying round of the javelin throw event with a 70.63m throw in his first attempt, while in his second attempt, he threw his javelin at a distance of 81.53 meters.

However, the Automatic qualifying mark for the final of the World Athletics Championship was 83 meters, while the benchmark for the Paris Olympics was 85.50 meters.

Arshad Nadeem breached both benchmarks in his third attempt with an amazing 86.79-meter throw, consequently qualifying for both events.

Meanwhile, his Indian counterpart Neeraj Chopra also qualified for the World Athletics Championship final and Paris Olympics with an 88.77-meter throw in his first attempt.

They will now meet in the finals of the World Athletic Championship on August 27.

Arshad Nadeem talked about the match with Neeraj Chopra, before departing for Budapest to participate in the ongoing event.

“It is expected to be a good match with Neeraj Chopra in World Athletics,” he said.

He also gave an update about his fitness and thanked the President of the Athletics Federation of Pakistan (AFP) Major General (Rtd) Muhammad Akram Sahi for supporting him while he was nursing his injury.

“I am fully fit and will try to perform well,” said Arshad Nadeem. “I have trained hard for the event after getting fit,”

“I am grateful to Federation President General Akram Sahi for supporting me in difficult times,” he added.

It is worth mentioning that Arshad Nadeem was declared fit for the World Athletics Championship earlier this month by the medical board, after being ruled out of the Asian Athletics Championship, due to an injury to his left knee.

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HISOR: Zahmena Malika’s decider helped Pakistan women’s football team beat hosts Tajikistan 1-0 and grab the consolation win in their maiden qualifying campaign for the Olympics on Tuesday. 

The England-based forward netted the ball in the 25th minute as Pakistan, already out of the race to advance to the second round of qualifying for next year’s Paris Olympics, ended their campaign on a positive note and finally got some points on the board.

With the win, Pakistan finished third in Group E after having lost to the Philippines and Hong Kong in the previous matches.

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Pakistan get the win to round up their Women's Olympic Qualifiers Round 1 with all three points in Group E! pic.twitter.com/gXYyLfNcMs

— #WAC2026 (@afcasiancup) April 11, 2023

The London Seaward forward got on the end of a superb through ball by Amina Hanif, springing the offside trap before running through and calmly slotting it past the Tajikistan goalkeeper to give her side the lead. It was also Pakistan’s first goal in the qualifiers.

The London Seaward attacker connected with Amina Hanif’s excellent through ball, beating the offside trap before slotting Pakistan’s first-ever goal in the Olympics qualifiers.

The Philippines, who beat Hong Kong 2-0 earlier on Tuesday, secured a ticket to the next round.

In the first round of Olympic Qualifiers, 26 Asian teams, divided across seven groups, participated.

Winners from each group will join Asia’s five highest-ranked teams – North Korea, Japan, Australia, China and South Korea – in the second round of the Paris 2024 Olympic women’s football qualifiers to be held in October.

The three group winners and one best-placed runner-up from the second round will play for the two spots for Paris 2024 Olympics in the final round to be held in November-December 2023.

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