Dirkie Chamberlain netted her second successive hat-trick as SA finished at the top of the table in the round robin stage of the Olympic qualifier.

South Africa scored twice in the second half to get their Olympic women’s hockey qualifying bid off to a superb start in New Delhi, India.

When Marsha Marescia arrives in Beijing in a few months’ time and checks into the Olympic village, it will be a very different experience to what it was four years ago. Back then…