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The Olympic Games have always been a major event for Field hockey. This sport is among the oldest ones to have a competition during the event.
Hockey first appeared at the Olympic Games as a men's competition at 1908 Olympic Games in London, with six teams, including four from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Hockey was removed from the Olympics at the 1924 Paris Games due to the lack of an international structure. The International Hockey Federation (FIH, Fédération Internationale de Hockey) was founded in Paris that year as a response to hockey's omission. Men's hockey became a permanent fixture at the next Olympic Games (the 1928 Games in Amsterdam). Women had to wait until the 1980 Moscow Games to be incorporated in the Olympic hockey competitions.
The games were played on artificial turf for the first time at the 1976 Montreal Games.
Men's Olympic hockey tournament
Notes
Women's Olympic hockey tournament
| 1980 Moscow | |||
| 1984 Los Angeles | |||
| 1988 Seoul | |||
| 1992 Barcelona | GB and NI | ||
| 1996 Atlanta | |||
| 2000 Sydney | |||
| 2004 Athens |
Nations
Men's
| Event | 96 | 00 | 04 | 08 | 12 | 20 | 24 | 28 | 36 | 48 | 52 | 56 | 60 | 64 | 68 | 72 | 76 | 80 | 84 | 88 | 92 | 96 | 00 | 04 | Years | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| France | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Germany | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Great Britain | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nations | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Year | 96 | 00 | 04 | 08 | 12 | 20 | 24 | |||||||||||||||||||
See also
"Field hockey at the Olympics"