'It's Time to Improve the Game Now': Neeraj Chopra Happy With Silver, Sets Sight on Future
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Neeraj Chopra won a silver medal for India in the men’s javelin throw competition at the ongoing Paris Olympics 2024 on Thursday, August 8. The 26-year-old Indian athlete who won the gold medal in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics registered his season’s best throw of 89.45 m in the second attempt to seal a historic podium finish.
Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem won gold with a throw of 92.97 meters. He broke the previous Olympic record held by Denmark’s Andreas Thorkildsen in Beijing in 2008.
After winning India’s first silver medal in Paris, Chopra expressed his happiness at the podium finish but also added that it’s time for him now to work on his performance and injury-related issues, which have troubled him for quite some time.
“Country ke liye jab bhi medal jeet-te hai uski khushi toh hoti hai. Lekin wahi hai ki matlab medal ki baat alag hai lekin ab time hai improvement karne ka throw mein bhi aur jo bhi kuch injury chal rahi hai unpe abhi kaam karna hai aur jo kamiya hai unko sudharenge. Team ke sath baith ke baat karenge (We all feel happy whenever we win a medal for the country. It’s time to improve the game now. We will sit and discuss and enhance our performance),” Neeraj said after the men’s javelin throw final.