Balbir Singh Sr handed away on Monday after struggling three cardiac arrests within the therapy. One of India’s biggest hockey gamers Balbir Singh Sr died on Monday after struggling two cardiac arrests and being within the hospital for over two weeks. The legend was 95 and is survived by his daughter Sushbir and three sons Kanwalbir, Karanbir, and Gurbir.
The three-time Olympic gold medallist was in a semi-comatose state since 18 May and had developed a blood clot in his mind after being first admitted to the hospital for bronchial pneumonia with excessive fever.
One of the nation’s most achieved athletes, the long-lasting centre-forward was the one Indian amongst 16 legends chosen by the International Olympic Committee throughout fashionable Olympic historical past. His world file for many targets scored by a person within the males’s hockey last of the Olympics nonetheless stays unbeaten.
The sporting world woke as much as the unhappy information and moaned the lack of the long-lasting hockey participant. Here are a number of the reactions:
