Ah, those were days of real struggle, yaar! After our 1980 Moscow gold, the women's team faced a long drought, missing several Olympics until a gritty resurgence around 2016. Qualification now is through complex tournaments like the World League and Continental Championships—a far cry from our simpler times. I say this watching young girls today juggle academies and agents, while we qualified almost by sheer will, selling my own hockey stick once to help the team's travel fund.
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