Members of the Indian hockey groups obtained a grand welcome upon their arrival in Bhubaneswar.© Odisha Sports activities/Twitter
The members of the Indian Ladies’s and Males’s Hockey Groups got a grand welcome as they arrived in Odisha. The hockey gamers obtained a rousing welcome on their arrival on the Bhubaneswar airport the place state Sports activities and Youth Affairs Minister TK Behera and former Indian Males’s Hockey captain Dilip Tirkkey had been current to greet them. The gamers had been taken on two separate buses to a lodge the place they are going to chill out for a while earlier than attending the state-level felicitation programme to be attended by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
In accordance with the schedule, the staff could have lunch on the lodge after which have an interplay with journalists earlier than leaving for the Kalinga Stadium.
Each the groups could have a photograph session with the Chief Minister on the Kalinga Stadium.
Within the night, the groups will go away for the Lok Seva Bhavan the place they are going to be felicitated by Patnaik. The groups are additionally scheduled to have dinner with the chief minister at Kalinga Stadium.
The state capital was embellished to welcome the Olympic heroes with posters, banners and hoarding put up on either side of the roads between the airport and their lodge. They had been welcomed by blowing conch shells, garlands and tika.
Apart from, Odisha’s conventional and people dance teams carried out on the highway to welcome the heroes.
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The individuals of Bhubaneswar, largely college students, additionally gathered on the roadside to welcome the hockey heroes.
The Odisha authorities is the official sponsor of the Indian Hockey Groups since 2018. The lads’s staff received a medal on the Tokyo Olympics after a niche of 41 years.
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