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India will look to avoid wooden spoon in Olympic hockey

In what would be a repeat of the 2006 World Cup scenario, India will take on South Africa in a classification match for positions 11 and 12 at the London Olympic men's hockey competition here today.

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Six years ago in Monchengladbach, Germany, India scraped past South Africa 1-0 to finish 11th, and on the morrow, the Asian outfit will be hoping to score their first win at the Olympics here after having lost all their five league matches.

The South Africans had done well to hold eventual semifinalists Britain to a 2-2 draw after suffering a 0-6 defeat to Australia, but lost their remaining four games, albeit narrowly, to finish last in their group.

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