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Eight-time gold medallists India missed out on the Olympic Games men's hockey event for the first time when they lost 2-0 to Britain in the final of a qualifying tournament in Santiago yesterday.
Britain, the Games gold medallists in 1988, scored two early goals to seal India's fate and win the six-team competition in Chile, which also featured the hosts, Austria, Russia and Mexico.
China, Netherlands, South Korea, Canada, South Africa, Spain, Belarus, Pakistan and Australia qualified directly for the Beijing Games in August.
New Zealand beat Argentina in the final of the first qualifying tournament last month. The third is in Japan in April.
