The agony, the ecstasy, and the prolonged dread of the interminable video review

For uninitiated members of the hockey bandwagon who joined in the last 18 months, they would be forgiven for thinking every contest ends in a shoot-out.

Seven days earlier, the men’s Olympic hopes went up in smoke in the cruelest of fashions while the women’s World Cup silver was defined by those eight-second runs against India and Spain.