{"id":113982,"date":"2021-08-09T11:52:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T11:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=113982"},"modified":"2021-08-09T11:56:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T11:56:41","slug":"wouldve-been-good-if-arshad-nadeem-had-won-medal-too-neeraj-chopra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=113982","title":{"rendered":"Would\u2019ve been good if Arshad Nadeem had won medal too: Neeraj Chopra"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Neeran-Chopra-with-Arshad-Nadeem.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Karachi: India&#8217;s Neeraj Chopra wished that it would have been good if Arshad Nadeem had won a medal too at the Javelin Throw event at the Tokyo Olympics 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Neeraj on Saturday became his country&#8217;s first-ever athletic gold in the Olympics with a throw of 87.58m in his second attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Arshad, who became the first Pakistani athlete in history to qualify for the final of any event at the Olympics, finished fifth with a throw of 84.62.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview, Neeran said that it would have been good to have Nadeem on the podium too (<em>Asia ka naam ho jata<\/em>) as it would have brought glory for Asia.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Neeraj didn&#8217;t enjoy the hype created before the event as &#8216;Indo-Pak&#8217; contest. \u201c<em>Cricket mei chal jata hai<\/em>,\u00a0<em>7-8 countries hoti hai, par Olympic mei ye sab karna theek nahi hai\u00a0<\/em>(It\u2019s okay to do the comparisons in cricket where 7-8 countries are taking part but not fair in Olympics),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Both the star met at the dining hall right ahead of the closing ceremony of the Olympics where Arshad congratulated Neeraj.<\/p>\n<p id=\"12\" class=\"story_para_12\">\u201cHe congratulated me with a big smile. I told him that he is looking\u00a0<em>tagra<\/em>\u00a0(strong) in his national costume. He did well and I wished him all the best for the future,\u201d\u00a0 Neeraj revealed.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/poa-announces-pkr1million-sports-scholarship-arshad-nadeem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">POA announces PKR1million, sports scholarship for Arshad Nadeem<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Karachi: India&#8217;s Neeraj Chopra wished that it would have been good if Arshad Nadeem had won a medal too at the Javelin Throw event at <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=113982\" title=\"Would\u2019ve been good if Arshad Nadeem had won medal too: Neeraj Chopra\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113984,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113982\/revisions\/113984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}