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The tournament mascot, Olly, an Olive Ridley turtle (named on Wikipedia), running with a hockey stick in a cap and India’s light blue shirt, with the trophy beside him.
Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup, Bhubaneswar 2018
The fourteenth Men’s Hockey World Cup was played at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar from 28 November to 16 December 2018: sixteen teams in four pools, 36 matches over 19 days. It made India only the second country, after the Netherlands, to host the World Cup three times, after Mumbai in 1982 and New Delhi in 2010. The Government of Odisha sponsored India’s men’s and women’s hockey teams in a partnership with Hockey India running to 2023. According to Wikipedia, Belgium won the final, beating the Netherlands on penalties.
India Post issued five ₹5 stamps on the opening day, designed by Kamleshwar Singh and printed by Security Printing Press, Hyderabad. For the first time, the ₹25 miniature sheet broke away from the usual rectangle with a shape of its own, to celebrate the game and draw young people to philately. India’s men have won eight Olympic gold medals in hockey, the first at Amsterdam in 1928.
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