Paris and field hockey have history. Introduced for the 1908 Games in London, the sport was removed from the 1924 Games in the French capital and so piqued were hockey's great and good from several countries that the International Hockey Federation was immediately founded in Paris.
The International Olympic Committee, the outfit which oversees the Olympic Games, took note of the outrage and men's field hockey was reinserted into the roster at the next Olympic extravaganza in 1928 in Amsterdam.
