Chak De India! Bollywood Rejoices As Men's Hockey Team Claims Second Consecutive Bronze In Olympics
India triumphed over Spain to secure the bronze medal in men's hockey at the Paris Olympics 2024. Celebs took to their social media to extend best wishes.
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Olympic 2024 Update: The Indian Men's Hockey team achieved a historic milestone at the 2024 Paris Olympics, securing the Bronze medal with a thrilling 2-1 victory against Spain on Thursday. With this unforgettable win, many celebrities like Deepika Padukone, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Rakul Preet Singh, Neha Dhupia, and Riteish Deshmukh have shared their excitement and congratulated the team through their social media while sending their best wishes.
Bollywood Celebs rejoice as India Men's Hockey team wins Bronze at Paris Olympics 2024
Actress Deepika Padukone shared a team photo on her Instagram story to celebrate the Indian hockey team's victory at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
On the other side, Actress Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Rakhul Preet Kaur also took to their Instagram story and shared the team picture as they celebrated the India Hockey team win.
Sharing her heartwarming wishes to the Indian Hockey team, Neha Dhupia posted a few pictures of the playground and wrote on X, "From one field to another. The last quarter was A nervous one to watch! So well done and Congratulations #teamindia."
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Another tweet shared by Riteish Deshmukh reads, "Bronze Chuk De India what a victory @TheHockeyIndia. Congratulations!!!! This is exceptional."
He also lauded the courage of Indian Hockey player PR Sreejesh and shared his pictures from the match. "Legend @16Sreejesh!!! Thank you for everything…. Congratulations Champion," he wrote.
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Anil Kapoor also shared a picture of the Indian Men's Hockey team on his Instagram story, and wrote, "Congratulations to our boys in blue on the bronze!! Great game."
Veteran actor Anupam Kher shared a reel on Instagram in which we could see a glimpse of the match. He also congratulated the India team, and by quoting, "Chuck De India!! Congratulations, Best wishes, Love, Salute, Zindabad, Jaihind."
About India's historic win in hockey
Skipper Harmanpreet Singh rose to the occasion once again with twin strikes as the Indian hockey team beat Spain 2-1 to claim a second consecutive bronze medal at the Olympics and give a perfect send-off to veteran custodian P R Sreejesh here on Thursday. Indians recovered from the heart-wrenching 2-3 defeat to Germany in the semifinal and played positive hockey for most of the match to come out trumps. Spain took the lead in the 18th minute but Harmanpreet brought his A game to the fore yet again to steer India through.
(With inputs from PTI)