Paris Olympics 2024 Live Updates, India Day 14: After hockey and Neeraj Chopra add to tally, Aman Sehrawat targets wrestling bronze | Sport-others News
Neeraj Chopra’s silver launches him into country’s greatest ever territory
It’s been a particularly revealing time of India’s mediocrity in sports at the 2024 Olympics with four bronze from just two disciplines, and a real bloodbath with 4th place finishes littered across sports in the first ten days at Paris. It has seemed criminal to even dream of silver or gold, until you wound up nearly weeping and wounded from the Vinesh Phogat misfortune, and settled with doom and dread in the heart, to watch Neeraj Chopra. And Chopra delivered with a silver on a day Pakan’s Arshad Nadeem threw an Olympic record throw of 92.97m to win the country’s first-ever individual gold medal.
With faintly ridiculous sounding confidence, and not seeming raving mad at all, the country’s mind immediately jogged up to Gold. Such lofty ambitions, this calm assurance, the easy thinking of this mere thought that, of course, India was contending for a gold, and might even sulk if it’s a silver, are alien for a country that is very self conscious of its poverty of Olympic medals. (READ MORE)
