Tokyo: All eyes will be in the Chopra Neeraj to give the Olympic medal that is difficult to understand in India and ended 100 years waiting when he competed in the Javelin men’s final on Saturday.
A pre-tournament medal competitor, 23-year-old Chopra triggered the country’s expectations by adding a qualifying round with an amazing first-half throw of 86.59 million.
Three trajectory and field athletes are part of the Indian team of Indian members at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium – two other wrestlers.
Since then, there is no Indian who won a medal in athletics.
The International Olympic Committee still held a 200M Norman Pritchard Silver Medal and 200 M at the Paris Olympics to India through various studies, including the records of the IAAF (now Athletics World), showing that he had competed for England.
A son of a farmer from Khandra Village near Panipat in Haryana, who took athletics to shed the flab, Chopra could disable history by winning a medal that was difficult to understand, who was liked from the late Milkha Singh and PT Usha let her slipping from their edition in 1964 and 1984.
” I was at my first Olympics, and I felt very good.
In warming, my performance wasn’t so good, but later (in the qualifying round) my first throw had a good angle, and was a perfect throw, “Chopra said after the qualifying round on the day Wednesday.
“I need to focus on the throw, and try to repeat this (performance) with a higher score,” said young people who came to the Olympics with the fourth best (88.07m) throws this year.
Chopra’s performance on Saturday was one of the best performances by India at the Olympics, when he finished ahead of the favorite of gold medals and 2017 world champions Johannes Vetter from Germany.
Vetter, who previously said that Chopra would find it difficult to defeat him at the Olympics, struggling in his first two throws before crossing the automatic qualification mark with a final throw of 85.64m.
The 28-year-old German was high, who came to the Olympics after having seven monster throws more than 90m between April and June, was lying in seventh dangerous positions after the two first throws but finally qualified for the final second in the back of Chopra.
Ask all the top athletes and they will say what they count is the performance that day but Chopra will come to the final on Saturday with a number of pre-tournament medal asylum falling on the first hurdle.
The Top Performer of the two Season Marcin Krukowski (PB & SB 89.55M) Poland and 2012 Olympics Champion and 2016 Rio Games Bronze-Medal Trinidad & Tobago’s Keshorn Walcott (PB 90.16M, SB 89.12M) failed to qualify for the final with the best throws.
74.65m and 79.33m respectively.
Latvian World Champion 2014 Gatis Cakss (PB & SB 87.57M) The Fifth Best Performer this season and ruled the world champion Anderson Peters from Grenada each has a low throw of 78.73m and 80.42m to fail to make a final cut.
Only chopra and vetter are left among the top five players this season.
Arshad Nadem Pakistan, who has won a bronze medal when Chopra won Gold at the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia, topping Group B to get automatic qualifications to the final with a second round of 85.16m throws.
He qualified for the third overall final behind Chopra and Vetter.
The Indian camp here hopes Saturday must produce the best day of Indian athletics.
“I always want the Olympic medal since I first became President AFI (in 2012) and I hope that dreams will be realized before the end of my time,” Athletic Federation of President India Faire Sumariwalla told PTI.
The third term Sumariwalla as President AFI will expire in 2024 and he cannot be re-elected with a national sports code.
Sumariwalla and Klaus Bartonietz, a bio-mechanical expert responsible for Chopra, Head of National coach Radhakrishnan Nair was seen cheering chopra from a nearly empty stand on Saturday.
Once again on Saturday, the Indian athletic contingent is expected to be full of the Olympic Stadium, hoping history was created by Chopra.
All eyes in Neeraj to terminate the 100-year Indian waiting for the Olympic medal in Athletics
