Pictures of Indian Women's Hockey Team Celebrating Victory over Australia are from 2021
Spokesman in its investigation found that the viral post is misleading
Viral Photo News: RSFC (Team Mohali) – Australia became world champion for the sixth time in the final match of Cricket World Cup 2023 played on 19 November 2023. Now after the final picture of the Indian women's hockey team celebrating victory over Australia is going viral and it is being claimed that the Indian women's hockey team has given a crushing defeat to the Australian women's hockey team in Tokyo city of Japan.
Facebook page "ANKH" shared the viral picture and claimed that the Indian women's hockey team has defeated the Australian women's hockey team in Tokyo city of Japan.
Spokesman in its investigation found that the viral post is misleading. These pictures going viral are from Tokyo Olympics 2020 when Indian women's hockey team defeated Australia 1-0 in the quarter-final match.
-- Spokesman's Investigation
Starting the investigation, we first did a reverse image search of these photos. Viral pictures are from 2021.
We found these pictures shared in many old news. This picture was shared in the news of The Gaurdian dated August 2, 2021. While sharing the news the headline was given, "Hockeyroos’ quest to end Olympic medal drought spoiled by quarter-final defeat to India"
According to reports, Indian women's hockey team defeated the Australian team 1-0 in the quarter-final match of Tokyo Olympics 2020.
Similarly, we found many pictures of this match shared in the news of Yahoo News. In this news, many other pictures including the video of this match were shared.
Conclusion- Spokesman in its investigation found that the viral post is misleading. These pictures going viral are from Tokyo Olympics 2020 when Indian women's hockey team defeated Australia 1-0 in the quarter-final match.
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