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Field hockey at the Summer Olympics

Field hockey was removed from the Olympics at the 1924 Paris Games due to the lack of an international sporting structure.

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Men's field hockey became a permanent feature at the next Olympic Games, the 1928 Games in Amsterdam.

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Field hockey was introduced at the Summer Olympic Games as a men's competition at the 1908 Games in London, with six teams, including four from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

M. Z. Kiani

A keen Hockey player in his youth, Kiani joined the British Indian Army in 1931 at the Indian Military Academy at Dehra Dun, sitting for the entrance exam in preference over a trial for the Olympic Hockey trials at Calcutta.

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