‘The IHF is preserving Dhanraj for Olympics’

“Who is IHF to say that Pillay is fit? We will have a camp and would take advice from SAI, sports ministry. They always send their experts. Only medical tests are not enough,” Gill said.

“Medical fitness and physical fitness are two different things. I am medically very fit, but cannot say so about my physical fitness. I could not last 10 seconds on the hockey field with junior players,” he said in an apparent reference to the medical report submitted by the player that declared him to be fully fit.

Gill said with the Olympic games still three months away, it would be too early to say who would feature in the team for the event. “How can we name the team three months in advance? No one can do that?” he said, adding that the federation would pick the best-available team.