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Neeraj Chopra will inspire, but India has to be patient: Colin Jackson | More sports News – Times of India

KOLKATA: Colin Jackson is one of the greatest athletes to not have won an Olympic gold, although the former 110m hurdler has been a world champions multiple times, a world record holder and has innumerable titles under his belt. The cricketer-turned athlete, though, has no regrets. "It wasn't meant to be," the Welshman, in the city for a sporting event, told TOI on Thursday.The silver in Seoul, 1988, was his best result inOlympic Games, although he participated in three more. He started as the favourite in all of them, but injuries ended his hopes. "That's how athletics is, you have to accept it." Jackson hit the headlines again much after retirement when he came out as gay.Excerpts from an interview:Why did you leave cricket to make a career in athletics?There are quite a few reasons, ...
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Neeraj Chopra on why he agreed to rethrow: ‘Other athletes were cooling down and it was getting unfair on them’

Neeraj Chopra retained his gold medal at the Asian Games at Hangzhou after a goof-up which forced him to retake his first throw. The incident happened because the officials had not measured his throw before the next thrower had launched his javelin. It was a bizarre moment, and after he initially protested, Neeraj agreed to throw his first attempt again. The javelin looked like it had crossed the 85m mark. His revised first attempt landed at the 82.38m mark. Neeraj eventually threw 88.88m with his fourth throw to seal the title. India’s Kishore Kumar Jena also shrugged off a wrongly awarded red flag to claim the silver medal with a throw of 87.54m. He bettered his personal best twice in the competition and also made the cut for the Paris Olympics. After winning the gold, Neeraj said...
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Asian Games: Pakistan javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem pulls out due to injury, says Pakistani media

Pakistan’s hopes of winning its first gold medal of the Hangzhou 2023 Asian Games suffered a blow after javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem was reportedly ruled out due to injury. The javelin thrower is one of the biggest names in the Pakistani contingent, and was expected to contend for a gold medal with India’s Olympic and world champion Neeraj Chopra. However, media reports in Pakistan said that just 24 hours before he was due to compete in Hangzhou, the javelin thrower had pulled out due to a knee injury. The reports cited a statement from the Pakistan Olympic Association (POA), which was attributed to the Pakistan’s chef de mission for the 2023 Asian Games. Arshad’s name though is still in the startlist for the javelin throw event. The reports, on the websites of organisations like Geo...
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Asian Games: Neeraj Chopra eyes title defence for perfect season-ender | undefined News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Neeraj Chopra is eager to wind up his highly successful 2023 season with a repeat of his Jakarta Asiad show five years ago. The reigning Olympic and world champion will launch his title defence in the men's javelin throw competition at the upcoming Hangzhou Games on October 4.The Indian ace, who had set a new national record with a massive throw of 88.06m to finish on top of the podium in Jakarta, is primed for yet another gold medal outing at the Hangzhou Sports Centre Stadium, with the track and field competitions beginning September 29.The Asiad will be Neeraj's final major competition of this year. He will be leading a 68-member athletics squad of 35 men and 33 women – India's largest contingent for any sport in Hangzhou.Neeraj has been on a roll this season, having pocke...
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‘Always tough competing with Neeraj Chopra… I’m still dreaming’: Jakub Vadlejch after winning Diamond League title

He was second at the Tokyo Olympics behind Neeraj Chopra, third at the 2023 World Athletics Championships behind Chopra and Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem, third behind Anderson Peters and Chopra at the 2022 World Athletics Championships and second behind Johannes Vetter at the 2017 World Championships. But at last on Sunday, 32-year-old Jakub Vadlejch left behind his more illustrious rivals to claim a prestigious title: the Diamond League at Eugene. The Czech Republic thrower won the men’s javelin throw event at the Diamond League meeting, pipping Olympic gold medallist Chopra. “It’s always tough competing with Neeraj, but victory is for me, very valuable. I’m still dreaming. I felt very well. It’s very difficult, especially in my age, I’m almost 33 years old, so it’s difficult but javelin t...
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Neeraj Chopra fails to retain Diamond League title, ends second at Eugene

Neeraj Chopra has set such lofty standards for himself that even a respectable second-place finish in the prestigious Diamond League seems like a disappointment. It wasn’t Neeraj Chopra’s day at Eugene on Saturday as he failed to retain his Diamond League title (with a best effort of 83.80m), finishing second behind Czech power thrower Jakub Vadlejch (84.24m). Vadlejch took the lead in his very first throw before finishing off with an 84.24m as the rest of the field, including Neeraj, never threatened him. Neeraj’s best attempt of 83.80m came in the second round. Although Neeraj would be disappointed on not retaining his Diamond League title, he will still take home a second-place cheque of approx Rs 10 lakh. Two-time world champion Anderson Peters looked like a pale shadow of himself i...
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Neeraj Chopra at Diamond League Final live streaming: When and where to watch javelin throw event

Neeraj Chopra will take the field at the iconic Hayward Field at the University of Oregon late on Saturday night as he competes in the Eugene Diamond League Final. Hayward Field is where Chopra won a historic silver medal in the 2022 World Athletics Championships last year. The 25-year-old will be bidding to retain his title in a six-man field, which includes multiple-time world and Olympic medallist Jakub Vadlejch and two-time world champion Anderson Peters. Chopra had claimed the Diamond League champion’s trophy at the finale in Zurich last year. Chopra is also likely to compete at the upcoming Asian Games in China’s Hangzhou (September 23 to October 8), where the men’s javelin throw event will happen on October 4. Chopra’s route to the final has seen him finish on top in two individ...
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Germany once ruled world javelin. Now, as Neeraj Chopra soars, they plot a return to the top

Not too long ago, the talk in track and field circles was about a golden generation of javelin throwers emerging from Germany, all of them having breached the hallowed 90m mark, a distance considered very tough to cross.There was Johannes Vetter, the world champion in 2017 and the man tipped to be the Olympic champion at Tokyo 2020. There was Thomas Rohler, the Rio Olympics gold medallist. And then, there was the 2018 Diamond League final winner Andreas Hofmann, who finished second in the European Championships that year. Between them, the three throwers have 32 throws over 90 metres. Vetter can claim to have launched 20 throws over the fabled 90m mark, all of them coming between 2017 to 2021. Rohler has seven throws over 90m, all of which came between 2016 and 2018. Hofmann has five t...
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Not at his best, but Neeraj Chopra’s last round throw of 85.71 metres gives him second place at Zurich Diamond League

It was perhaps the strain of competing in a Diamond League just four days after being crowned World Champion. India’s Neeraj Chopra didn’t have an easy night in Zurich with three no marks but he still managed a throw of 85.71 metres in the sixth and last round to finish second behind Czech Republic’s Jakub Vadlejch (85.86 metres). Julian Webber of Germany finished third with 85.04 in a close contest. The three occupy top 3 spots on the points table after four rounds; Vadlejch on 29, Webber on 25 and Chopra on 23.The top six qualify for the Diamond League final in Eugene in mid September. The other Indian in Zurich, long jumper Murali Sreeshankar finished fifth with a best jump of 7.99 metres. Sreeshankar is third after four events with 14 points and trails Simon Ehammer of Switzerland ...
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‘This is for all of India’: Neeraj Chopra puts nation on top of the world | More sports News – Times of India

Neeraj Chopra just gave us the Moon landing in reverse, when he flung his thunderbolt in the warm Budapestair. Flying across lands, sneaking over borders, spanning generations perhaps, it was headed homewards, landing silently, piercing our collective consciousness as a sporting never-before. “I want to thank my fellow Indians back home for their late-night vigil for this.This is for all of India!” India’s firstWorld Athletics Championship gold medal winner would say.Neeraj then referred to himself not in third person, but as if he were the collective. “We became Olympic champion. We are World champion now. Anything is possible,” he assured us.“We all can do anything in all our chosen fields. All of us just keep working hard, and we can make a name in the world,” Neeraj added. Few got w...
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Motivation is to throw farther and farther: Neeraj Chopra | More sports News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Even though Neeraj Chopra has won every award his sport has to offer, the Olympic champion is not one to rest on his laurels. Instead, he pushes himself to achieve even more since "throwers have no finish line."With a long throw of 88.17 meters on Sunday, Chopra became the first Indian to win a gold medal at the World Championshipsin Budapest.His ornate trophy cabinet was lacking one prize-a gold from the World Championships.Chopra has won the gold at the Asian Games (2018) and Commonwealth Games (2018) in addition to the Tokyo Olympics gold. He has also won four individual Diamond League Meeting titles (two each in 2022 and 2023) apart from Diamond League champion's trophy last year.03:00Neeraj Chopra wins gold medal in Men's Javelin at the World Athletics Championship 2023C...
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Why World Champion Neeraj Chopra took to javelin | More sports News – Times of India

Fiddling with bee hives, stealing mangoes and fighting with friends - boyhood was a playbook of hinterland pranks for Neeraj Chopra. Food was the problem. It had too many calories and too much love. Dollops of fresh cream and choorma, a fat-friendly mix of roti, ghee and sugar, fed by a doting grandmother meant Neeraj stepped into his teens chubby and flabby. The family elders had a simple solution: hit the gym.When the gym at a nearby village shut down, Neeraj was forced to move to another fitness centre in Panipat, about 15 km from his village Khandra in east-central Haryana. Little did he know then that the town would change his life's direction much the same way it had altered the course of history centuries ago.Near the gym in Panipat, a town immortalised in medieval history as the...
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Neeraj Chopra not to compete before World Athletics Championships at Budapest in August

Olympic champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra will straightaway compete in the World Athletics Championships in Budapest starting August 19, without participating in any other meet after his exploits in the Diamond League in Lausanne. The 25-year-old Chopra, who returned to action after a one-month-long injury lay-off, won his second consecutive Diamond League title in Switzerland on Friday night with a throw of 87.66m. He had also won the season-opening Diamond League meet in Doha on May 5. “The next competition, Budapest, will be a big one for me,” Chopra said in Lausanne after winning the men’s javelin throw event. I wanted to win so I’m super happy with the results but I also want to go back to training and fix some of the things that I noticed and those are going to make me strong...
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Diamond League: Another first-place finish for Neeraj Chopra, India’s most bankable athlete

Friday night was cold at Lausanne during the Diamond League. When the first of the athletes, the women’s 400 metre runners started off, it was about 19 degrees Celsius with a light wind blowing. By the time four rounds were done in the men’s javelin throw, the temperature had dipped to 16 degrees. Over the years, a nip in the air has provided Indian athletes a ready excuse following a flop show at international meets.Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra isn’t one of them.It says a lot about Chopra that he is able to gauge conditions quickly and work around them. Making a comeback after over a month on the sidelines because of a muscle strain, Chopra won his second straight Diamond League event with a best throw of 87.66 metres in his fifth attempt. The winning return was a special effort from ...
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‘Felt nervous coming back from injury… still far from my best’: Neeraj Chopra says after winning at Lausanne Diamond League

Neeraj Chopra admitted he was feeling nervous after claiming victory in the men’s javelin throw event at the Lausanne Diamond League meet late on Friday night in what was his comeback from injury. “I was feeling a bit nervous coming back from an injury. It was a bit cold here tonight. I am still far from my best, but I feel it is getting better. I am relieved it´s coming together well for me. A win is a win and I will take that happily,” Chopra told organisers after his win. He went on to add: “I wanted to win so I’m super happy with the results but I also want to go back to training and fix some of the things that I noticed and that are going to make me stronger. Lausanne always treats me well. Last year I won and this year too, so I look forward to coming again next year and win agai...