Neeraj Chopra promises PM Modi home-made “churma” treat after Paris 2024 Olympics
Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with India's Paris Olympics 2024 contingent on Friday, motivating them to make their country proud.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with India's Paris Olympics 2024 contingent on Friday, motivating them to make their country proud.
Anderson Peters, Max Dehning, Keshorn Walcott, Neeraj Chopra, Oliver Helander, Andrian Mardare, Lassi Etalatalo & Toni Keranen were the eight contestants in the competition.
This marks the second successive year that Neeraj had to pull out of the Ostrava Golden Spike.
Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra clinched the gold medal in the javelin throw with a modest 82.27m effort at the Federation Cup athletics meet in Bhubaneswar.
Neeraj and Kishore Jena, both of whom have also secured Paris 2024 Olympic quotas for India, however will not compete in the qualification rounds on Tuesday.
The 26-year-old will start his 2024 season at the Qatar Sports Club in May this year when he competes in the Doha Diamond League.
Nadeem, who finished second behind Chopra in Budapest, was recently quoted, saying: “It has now got to a stage where the javelin is damaged and I have asked the national federation and my coach to do something about it before the Paris Olympics.
Nadeem, who came up with the magic mark of 90.18m throw to claim the gold at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games in 2022, on Thursday revealed that the only international standard javelin that he had is currently out of shape. Consequently, Nadeem is currently training with a locally-made javelin but that could lead to injury in the run-up to the Paris Olympics
The two-time World Championships gold medalist and Diamond League number one in women’s pole vault talked about the 19th edition of the Tata Mumbai Marathon 2024, scheduled for Sunday.
A certain popular, parental bull-headedness drives our schoolboys into cricket academies which engender dreams of Indian Premier League millions, if not a berth in the international game.
