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So, it is a good decision to go to Spain before landing at Rio, Sreejesh said.Unlike previous editions, the International Hockey Federation (FIH) has introduced a new competition format in this years Olympics.As per the new format 12 teams have been divided into two pools of six with each team initially playing round-robin games within their pool. Following the completion of the round-robin games, the top four teams from each pool will advance to the quarterfinaals.ddddddddddddIn each group there are six teams out of which four will qualify for the quarterfinals. 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