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Having secured its place in the final, a confident Indian mens hockey team would look to continue the winning streak against less-fancied Japan in its last pool match at the second-leg of the Four-Nation Invitational Tournament in Hamilton. India hockey team chief coach Sjoerd Marijne with players during a practice session. Hockey India India are unbeaten in the tournament so far with 3-2 and 5-4 stanley cup win over stanley cup website hosts New Zealand and higher-ranked Belgium. READ | India hold nerve to beat Belgium 5-4 in second-leg of Four Nations Hockey tournament Having drubbed Japan 6-0 in the first leg at Tauranga, India will start as overwhelming favourites against their Asian counterparts at the Gallagher Hockey Stadium on Saturday. While the team would look to clinch a third straight win after beating hosts New Zealand 3-2 in the first match, followed by a stunning win against Belgium, chief coach Sjoerd Marijne wants his players to work on their shortcomings stanley ca . We would like to improve our ball possession and we can train on this aspect against Japan. Our 75 yard press needs to improve as well and that is also something we want to work on when we play against Japan, said the 43-year-old Dutchman. In their emphatic victory against the World No. 3 Belgium on Thursday, India led twice -- 1-0, 4-3 -- before Belgium fought back to surge ahead twice -- 2-1, 3-2. READ | India edge out New Zealand 3-2 in 2nd leg of four-nation hockey tournament But the Indians pulled up their socks just a Vxfw US Olympic champion, an investment banker, updates LinkedIn bio after gold medal
China is facing a one-year ban from weightlifting over repeated doping cases in a move which threatens to stop some of the worlds top athletes from competing internation stanley cup ally. Yang Zhe CHN of China fail stanley termoska s a lift during Rio Olympics. REUTERS The International Weightlifting Federation confirmed Thursday that three failed retests of drug test samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympics will lead to Chinas automatic ban 鈥?if the case stanley cup s are proven and the athletes in question disqualified by the International Olympic Committee. IWF spokeswoman Lilla Rozgonyi told The Associated Press that the positive tests for gold medalists Cao Lei, Chen Xiexia and Liu Chunhong, all announced Wednesday, were enough for a ban under rules adopted by the IWF board in June. It happens automatically. The vote was already taken so now we only need to receive the closed cases from the IOC to proceed, Rozgonyi said in an e-mail. China is the worlds dominant country in weightlifting, having topped the medal table at every Olympics since 2000. It won seven medals in Rio de Janeiro this month, five of them gold. Along with China, IWF said that Ukraine and Azerbaijan have joined Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, which were already facing one-year bans under earlier announcements. Wednesdays announcements took Ukraine to three failures from retesting, with four for Azerbaijan. At least six lifters from each of Belarus and Kazakhstan have failed Olympic retests, with seven for Russia. Between them, tho