Indian men's hockey team to skip opening ceremony due to non-fitting jerseys

"We have a match tomorrow, so we don't want to drain the players since the ceremony will go on for long," Hockey India President Narinder Batra told PTI.

However, according to PTI, the actual reason behind the men's hockey team's absence is that the kit that was provided to them by Hockey India is not fitting them. The men will be gunning for India's first medal in hockey since 1980,

"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 told PTI.