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Teams and officials participating successful the FIH Men’s Hockey Junior World Cup, 2025, presently nether mode successful Madurai, got a whiff of the Tamil civilization and contented connected Friday. They witnessed the jallikattu successful enactment astatine the Kalaignar Centenary Jallikattu Arena successful Keelakarai adjacent Alanganallur.
Minister for Commercial Taxes and Registration P. Moorthy welcomed the hockey players astatine the arena. The hockey players from Canada, Namibia, Egypt, Austria, China, Bangladesh, South Korea, Oman and the officials were dressed successful accepted shirts, dhotis and angavastrams.
Following a radical photograph of the nationalist teams astatine the entranceway of the stadium, successful beforehand of the Eru Thazhuvuthal statue, the players were taken wrong the assemblage for the jallikattu event. They were seen clicking pictures enthusiastically from the assemblage arsenic the bull tamers tried to tame the raging bulls released from the Vaadivasal.
Over 100 bulls were released and 50 bull tamers participated successful the lawsuit which went connected for astir 2 hours. The winners and the participants were felicitated. It turned retired to beryllium a unsocial and unforgettable acquisition for the hockey players. Arrangements were besides made for English commentary of the accepted athletics for the payment of the overseas players.
They were taken astir the Jallikattu Museum wrong the stadium that housed photographs, sculptures, drawings and paintings connected jallikattu. They were past treated to a sumptuous repast comprising accepted vegetarian and non-vegetarian delicacies from the Madurai region. Sholavandan MLA A. Venkatesan, Madurai Corporation Commissioner Chitra Vijayan, Superintendent of Police B.K. Arvind and different officials were present.
