Hockey Olympian Ravinder Pal Singh no more

TIL Desk Sports/ Hockey Olympian and a member of Indian team that won gold medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games, Ravinder Pal Singh passed away in a Lucknow hospital on Saturday morning due to Covid-related complications. He was 65.

Singh, who played as centre-half and also represented the country at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, had been in hospital since April 24.

On Thursday, he was shifted from the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Vivekanand Hospital to the non-Covid facility after he tested negative for the virus and his condition improved. But within a day of being moved out of the ICU, his condition deteriorated.