India will clash with France in the finals of Olympic qualifiers today. Indian women team's hopes of qualifying for the London Olympics went up in smoke after suffering a crushing 1-3 defeat against top-ranked SouthAfrica in the finals of hockey qualifiers. World number 12 South Africa remained unbeaten in the tournament and had defeated India 5-2 in the league stage. India paid the price for their defence lapses and lack of finishing as South Africa rode on their better co-ordination, agility and solid defence to crush the hosts at their home ground in New Delhi last night.India thus had to settle for the silver to continue their 32-year-old jinx of not qualifying for the Olympics. Indian eves had played in the Olympics in the 1980 Moscow Olympics, the year the game was introduced, on an invitational basis.Earlier in the day, Italy won the bronze medal after beating Ukraine 2-1, while Canada finished at the fifth position after notching up a 3-0 victory over Poland.