What happened to the JJ.oo. of Sydney 2000?

25 years of a historical event in the national sport that marked a before and after in the hockey of our country: obtaining the first Olympic medal and the birth of “Las Lasonas”. While no achievement has an easy path, Sydney 2000 had a more important stone than expected on the way to the silver medal. But why? What happened to the regulation of the Olympic Games that almost costs the contest to Las Leonas?

To contextualize, Sergio “Cacho” team was part of Group A with Australia, Spain, Great Britain and South Korea. In the debut, Argentina beat the Asian team 3 to 2 and then triumphed by the minimum against the English. Of course, after the first two games the bad news began because he lost 3 to 1 against Australia, the premises and best team in the world at that time, and 1 to 0 against Spain. What happened to this? Here comes the problem …

From the “first round” to the “elimination phase” three teams of each group advanced to the second phase, that is, they classified six countries to the final stage of the contest. That final stage was disputed in a “third group” called Group C, in which everyone faced everyone. What the selected did not know and that had changed with respect to the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games It was that this group was classified by dragging the points obtained before the rivals of the same group that had also advanced, in this case the defeats against Spain and Australia, and would face those from the other area (Netherlands, China and New Zealand).

This complicated the South American tournamentsince they had lost in front of the European and the local and They had to win the three games they had in this group C (In addition to waiting for rival results) to be able to dispute the long -awaited end. And that is where “Las Lasonas” emerged.

Faced with this adversity, the Argentine women’s team went ahead and won the three meetings ahead to obtain the ticket to the final: 3 to 1 against Holland, 2 to 1 to China and win 7 to 1 New Zealand Front. Undoubtedly, an impressive sample that will be the Argentine hockey in history.