hockey some people will play all three and some people will only play 11aside some people will only play indoor and some will only play hockey 5s more people should play hockey thats all we wantq hockey was on the chopping block of the olympics not long back is hockey 5s an idea that developed from there so that we can salvage the sport if the ioc again thinks of derostering iti wasnt at the fih but my understanding is that it was not the reason why hockey 5s was developed after london that shock got sent around and that generated a whole load of new work and thinking around hockey out of which things like pro league came because we wanted to have toplevel hockey in more countries on television more oftenlook at the first three mini tournaments weve had in pro league this season two in argentina and one here in india huge crowds really successful that together with a good relationship with the ioc hockey is in a really good place with the olympicshockey 5s separately was developed and started off at the youth olympic games and its now played in 60 plus countries around the world thats a development tool to get more people into hockey people who dont like hockey 5s argue that this is the fihs way of trying to bring a different type of hockey to the olympics its never been the idea never been the plan never been the strategy ten plus years down the line if in the future the ioc comes to us and says hockey 5s looks really good do you want to play hockey 5s as well at the olympics of course we will say yes great but we are not going to put hockey 5s instead of hockey 11s hockey 11 is hockey its the olympic format its what 95 of the people around the world play thats our sport so we need to stop talking the more we talk about only hockey 5s in the olympics some people may think maybe we shouldfih ceo theiry weil and new fih president tayyab ikram have both spoken to the ioc and made it very clear and the ioc is also clear that 11aside hockey is the olympic formatq odisha has invested a lot in bringing up the stadium in rourkela which will have to be sustained with regular international tournaments has the fih been approached for that by hockey indianot specifically no we havent had that sort of conversation with them but for example the next set of pro league matches that india is hosting this season will take place in rourkela so i would not be surprised at all and i would sort of expect that in future pro league seasons as well rourkela would be hosting some matches it would make some senseis a twincity world cup a norm from here on this mens world cup and the last womens edition both have been cohosted by