For centuries Panipat had witnessed three battles that changed the history of India.
Right a decade ago, a coincidence meeting between a fat teenager who tried to lose young kilos and javelin thrower in the same city of Haryana caused a tectonic event with a similar proportion in the history of Indian athletics on Saturday: a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics, the first athletic gold at the Olympics And the first medal in the athletics in Post-Independent India.
The fat boy is a chopra neeraj.
And athletes are Jai Choudhary alias Jaiver, then a javelin maker who aspires high and now a coach in NIS, Patiala.
At 13, Neeraj weighed more than 80 kilos.
Fused by Dollops of Malai (Fresh Cream) and Choorma, a mixture of bread, ghee, and sugar-friendly sugars by adoring grandmothers, he became the target of bullying by children his age.
Feeling his discomfort, his uncle, Bhim Chopra, took him to the gymnasium of the Panipat sports stadium in 2011 and instructed the coach there to get neeraj again formed.
“We were a little worried about him gaining weight quickly, because the children of his age began to turn it up.
So I decided to take him to the gym so he could be fit and strong,” said Bhim Chopra Toi.
A few families know that after completing the gym session, he will spend hours at the Sai Center in Panipat.
“Hume, PATA BHI Nahi Chala Isne Kab Bhala Fekne starts Kar Diya (we don’t know when she starts throwing Javelin).
One day when the photo appears in a local newspaper for winning the inter-district competition, we realize that she has become an athlete,” Remember his uncle.
“He used to come to the trajectory every day.
One day I casually asked him, Bhala Pheebega? (Do you want to try Javelin?).
He nodded.
When he threw his first Javelin, I looked at my fellow athletes and the first word that came from my mouth was ‘Ye to Natural Hai’ (he is a natural talent), “said Jaiver, under who neeraj began training in 2011.
When will convince his family that Neeraj has the potential and must dedicate himself to sports, raising resources is a challenge.
Families with Neeraj have a combination of eight hectares of agricultural land in Khandra Village.
“We want to reconstruct our ancestral home.
We put the idea on the pause.
Instead we focused our resources in Neeraj,” another uncle, Surendra, has said in 2018.
A group of four athletes, including Neeraj and Jai, then shifted to the Stadium Tau Devi Lal in Panchkula and trained there until he got the National Camp call in 2015.
The important role in his career was initially played by a coach, Naseem Ahmad.
In the next few years, neeraj develops as athletes who make podium clutch finish at home and abroad.
Only 12 days past the qualification deadline for the 2016 Rio Olympics ended, he shot into a gold medal that won a gold medal in the IAAF World Under-20 championship in Bydgoszcz, Poland with a record of 86.48m records.
At the Gold Coast at the Commonwealth Games 2018, Javelin landed a short centimeter, 86.47m.
A similar throw will make it bronze in 2016 Rio.
Tokyo is different.
Neeraj leads the field throughout.
Nothing approaches.
Commentators are flooded with praise and social media that are happy about men with golden arms.
“God finally heard our prayers, this is extraordinary, I talk to him last night, and he seemed confident in the gold medal, he had done it,” Satish said, was still amazed at his son’s achievements.
Quotes hangs on the wall at the Neeraj Family House: ‘An idea can turn on your life.
Sometimes, it’s just a coincidence meeting.
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