The Indian Hockey team which landed in the olympic village to play their best game in the upcoming matches in the olympics was greeted with a shock. While every other team practises their hardest in the few hours left for the greatest opening of the year the Rio Olympics 2016 the Indian Hockey Team was left assembling chairs. The bright and spirited team landed in Rio with their head in the game, only to reach their guest quarters to be greeted by a barren room, save four bean-bags and two chairs.  “Hanging in these bean-seats will lead to injuries on the long-term. Apart from 2 chairs and the 4 bean-seaters, there is nothing in the living room, nothing to hang clothes also,” wrote Oltmans. “For athletes who have to perform at top-level during a longer period of the Olympics, we need proper chairs and tables in the apartments for 6 persons.

Actually there are only 2 chairs in each apartment.” Both men and women teams weren’t given the basic necessities that were provided to all the other teams, their Coach Roelant Oltmans wrote to the Chef de Mission, Rakesh Gupta, complaining about the shortage of chairs and television sets at the Games Village and the player’s apartments not being properly furnished. The team also has decided to skip the opening ceremony of the olympics due to the lack of official kit for the ceremony.  "The kit that was handed to the players has not fit most of them. The players didn't have the time to check the fittings since they reached Rio quite late and were given the kit on the day they started their trip," a source said.