Also known as Field Hockey, Hockey is a stick and ball game dating from 2000 B.C. Persia. The men’s event appeared in the Olympic Games for the first time in 1908, and definitively entered the programme in 1920. In 1980, women’s Hockey was also included as an Olympic sport. Until the 1970´s games, it was played on natural grass pitches. It was, then, switched to artificial pitches.
