Determined Kookas bow out to Netherlands

The Kookaburras' pursuit for their eighth medal in nine Olympic Games fell short on a quarterfinals day, going down to the Netherlands 2-0, where three medal favourites were sensationally knocked out of the race.

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For the third straight Olympic campaign, two hockey superpowers the Netherlands and Australia faced off in the quarterfinal, just three years on from the Kookaburras nail-biting win in a shootout and seven years on from when the Dutch won in Rio.

Still hurt from that loss in Tokyo, a brilliant Netherlands outfit showed up in Paris to slowly end Australia’s strong hopes.

Aussie’s most-capped goalkeeper ever Andrew Charter was exceptional in his 250th outing in green and gold and while he saved four penalty corner attempts, nothing was stopping Duce Telgenkamp’s rocketing deflection off a penalty corner or Thijs van Dam’s sublime run in the final quarter.

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