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7:1 – That’s how you can start the Olympic tournament!
German hockey men actually let it go at the start of the Olympic tournament. Against overwhelmed Canadians – who must play hockey on ice – Germany won 7–1. After that, veteran Tobias Hawke was less shaken by a run-in win. The cracks in all seven hockey booths – in the video above.
yeah they’re really in the olympics
Tobias Hawk took a deep breath. “I can’t even feel that we are really here,” the captain of the German national hockey team said after a 7–1 (4–1) sovereign victory at the Olympic tournament in Tokyo against Canada. On and on whether it will happen. And now we really are in this beautiful stadium and we can leave everything we worked for – at the biggest sporting event in the world. ,
When the 33-year-old Hawke, who has a third Olympic victory in his fourth Summer Games as his clear goal, appears so touched after a disdainful opening victory against a second-class rival at the international level, it is This tournament shows a lot of specialties. And that probably explains why “Honamas” still had a slightly harder time launching its gold mission on Saturday.
After a 1–0 win against the North Americans, the team “missed a little bit of concentration at the start,” criticizing striker Florian Fuchs: “We want to stop it. We want to make it 2–0, we don’t succeed. happened.”
“Important First Step”
At the OE Hockey Stadium, Lucas Windfeeder took the lead at a temperature of around 30 °C. Keegan Pereira (16th) equalized in the second quarter for the Canadians, who are being coached by German Andre Henning.
Clear conditions were quickly ensured for better selection by the German Hockey Association (DHB) with double (22nd, 25th) goal scorers Christopher Ruhr. Windfeeder advanced with a second converted penalty corner shortly before Siren (28th) for the sub-European champions. Veteran Martin Hainer also succeeded with a penalty corner in his 263rd international (44th), Niklas Böserhof (59th) and the recently injured Mats Grambusch (60th) scored a late goal for the final score.
“It was an important first step and a lot of fun,” said Hawke, a hotly contested flag-bearer candidate in Tokyo. However, an increase in performance is inevitable for the upcoming tasks. The next rival awaits the German men in world champions Belgium on Monday (2:30 a.m. / CEST), a much stronger opponent who previously celebrated an early 3-1 victory in the top match against European champions the Netherlands. (sid/mar)