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Hockey at the Olympic Games will be without eight-time gold medallists India this year for the first time.
India missed out when they lost 0-2 to Britain in the final of a qualifying tournament today.
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.
Ashley Jackson set up the first for Barry Middleton in the fourth minute and Richard Mantell flicked in the second in the 10th.
China, Netherlands, South Korea, Canada, South Africa, Spain, Belarus, Pakistan and Australia qualified directly for the Beijing Games in August.
India missed out on an automatic berth after they failed to reach the 2006 Asian Games final.
New Zealand beat Argentina in the final of the first qualifying tournament last month. The third is in Japan in April.
- REUTERS
