After Great Britain’s very useful win over Pakistan this morning, matches resumed in the Olympic hockey tournament in Beijing this evening.
The first of this evenings matches caused an upset when New Zealand pegged back an early lead by Korea and then went on to win the match with a hat-trick of penalty corners from Hayden Shaw. There are six places between the two teams in world rankings. Lowly Canada were no match for the Australians, although Peter Short did manage to find the net to give his side a consolation goal in their 5-1 defeat. Spain were the better of the two sides when they met the Belgians, and the Netherlands almost matched their womenfolk’s result of yesterday with a 5-0 win over South Africa.
Full results and tables can be found on our Olympic pages at our main web site at www.talkhockeyradio.co.uk.
Great Britain’s women are next in action at 08:30 Beijing time against Argentina, who were held to a surprise 2-2 draw by the USA yesterday.
