It is interesting for what purpose Neeraj Chopra took up athletics. He went into athletics to lose weight but ended up being India’s track-and-field Olympic gold medallist. Neeraj Chopra who is just 23 years old has achieved the greatest milestone and is also being the only second Indian to win an Olympic medal. He finally fulfills the wish of Indian athletics who were waiting for over a century for this to happen.
It was on Saturday, the historic moment in Indian Olympics happened when Neeraj Chopra with his javelin in hand became a legendary hero by winning gold in the Tokyo Olympic Stadium. But what was unfortunate was that not many witnesses live from the stadium due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There was only a handful of officials and coaches to cheer and witness historic moments as they happened.
He received cheers from everywhere like he always does. The interesting thing is that he didn’t even need to reach his personal best of 88.07m to win the gold medal. The gold medal was sealed when he threw the javelin at a distance of 87.58m, which was just his second of the final round.
Many years before this historic moment arise, ago Neeraj Chopra in his younger days was handling the joint pressure from his joint family of 17 to lose weight.
This is an interesting and motivational life history of Neeraj Chopra. When he was 13 years old, he was a mischievous boy, often finding the beehives on village trees and trying to pull buffaloes by their tails.
The father Neeraj Chopra felt that he has to do something to be done to discipline to bring discipline to his child. His family finally agreed to do something to change the boy’s behavior.
His uncle took him to Shivaji Stadium in Panipat which is 15Km around the village. At first, he wasn’t interested in running and then almost fell in love with Javelin while seeing the senior players practicing at the stadium.
He decided to try his luck and clinched saying goes, rest is history, which would now probably make his way as Indian Olympic legend. He has been a consistent performer who came into the spotlight after winning the gold championship in the year2016 under-20 world record of 86.48m which still stands.
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His other achievements include were winning the gold medals in the 2018 Commonwealth Games, besides the top finish in the 2017 Championships. He is also 2018 Arjuna award.
