The "Good Luck Beijing" 2007 International Hockey Tournament came to a successful conclusion on August 13. Australia emphasized their overwhelming superiority when they walked away with both the men's and women's team titles at Beijing's Olympic Green Hockey Field. The Chinese women's team, which lost the penalty stroke competition 1:3 in the final showdown, had to be content with a second place, while the Chinese men's team experienced the strength of a world top-notch team when they were handed a 0:9 lesson in the final by their Australian counterparts.

In the women's division Australia, ranking third in the world, proved their prowess by clinching all the three games at the preliminary stage without any point against. Although after 85 minutes they drew 2:2 with China, they outplayed the latter 3:1 in the penalty stroke competition and won the title as expected.

In the women's final, the performance of a spirited Chinese side was praiseworthy. After losing one point, they did pretty well against the Australian team when they successfully came from behind to turn the score into 2:1. Though they later lost one more point with an own goal they learned a lot through their trial of strength with Australia for future improvement.

Argentina, ranking second in the world, only finished third due to the absence of half of its best players after their recent victory at the Pan American Games. But this would by means affect their participation in the 2008 Olympic Games.

It was no surprise that South Africa, lagging far behind the above-mentioned three teams, lost all the four games in the Beijing tournament. As African champions, they have already earned a berth in the 2008 Olympic Games. This time, they regarded the tournament as a good opportunity of warming up for next year's Olympics and adapting themselves to the Olympic venue in advance. Given that Africa is weak in the sport, South Africa has yet to participate in more competitions with other strong teams from different parts of the world if they are to improve their technical level.

In the men's division, it goes without saying that Australia, Olympic champions of Athens 2004, is the strongest among all participating teams. Throughout the competition people were impressed with their fine physical quality and high technical and tactical levels.

Compared with Pakistan and Malaysia, the other two teams in the men's division, China is no better than them in strength, but showed a death-defying spirit in the preliminaries. Although they got into the final as luck would have it, they did get to know, through their 0:9 defeat by Australia, what a top-notch team was like and where to improve in the near future.

Pakistan, ranking fifth in the world, is technically stronger than all its Asian opponents in the preliminaries. However, while they managed to outplay Australia, they were forced to draws with China and Malaysia. It seems that only when they were pitted against Malaysia in the bronze-medal match did they manage to show the strength of a traditionally strong team.

As the weakest of all the four teams in Beijing, Malaysia played well either with Australia or Pakistan in this tournament. In They displayed successful defensive play in the first half against Australia, and forced a draw with Pakistan when trailing behind. However, Malaysia has not yet qualified for the 2008 Olympic Games and it still remains unclear whether this tournament will help them in a way with their preparations for the coming Olympic qualifying competitions.