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In a phone call with Chopra after the men’s javelin final, PM Modi also credited the 26-year-old for making a billion Indians stay up past 1 am on Thursday to watch him secure a second successive podium finish in athletics at the Olympics. read more
 "‘You made our country proud once again’")
Indian javelin star Neeraj Chopra spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi after winning silver at the Paris Olympics. Reuters/PTI
Prime Minister Narendra Modi lauded javelin star Neeraj Chopra for making the country proud once again, this time with a silver medal at the Paris Olympics on Thursday.
In a phone call with Chopra after the men’s javelin final, which was won by Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem, PM Modi also credited the 26-year-old for making a billion Indians stay up past 1 am on Thursday to watch him secure a second successive podium finish in athletics at the Olympics.
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“You made our country proud once again and people from India were watching you last night with a lot of hope. It’s amazing how you have managed yourself and your game despite injury. When we meet, you’ll give me the details of your injury. We will discuss about it and we will figure out what I can do,” Modi said in the call.
“The interview of your mother showed the spirit of a sports family. The way she spoke about the gold medal where she said ‘he is also my son’ was beautiful,” the PM added, referring to his mother Saroj Devi referring to Chopra’s rival and friend Nadeem as her son.
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#WATCH | PM Narendra Modi spoke to Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra and congratulated him on the Silver medal. He also enquired about his injury and lauded the sportsman spirit shown by his mother.#Paris2024 #Paris2024Olympic pic.twitter.com/DvVEMcNbPQ
— ANI (@ANI) August 9, 2024Chopra finished second with a season-best throw of 89.45m in his only legal throw in six attempts to become the first Indian track and field athlete to medal in back-to-back Olympics, adding a silver in Paris 2024 to his historic gold in Tokyo 2020.
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Nadeem, meanwhile, won Pakistan their first ever individual gold medal and their first top-of-the-podium finish since Los Angeles 1984 with an Olympic record throw of 92.97m. He would breach the 90m-mark in his final attempt as well, something that Chopra is yet to achieve. Grenada’s Anderson Peters took home the bronze with a best effort of 88.54m.
Chopra has also won a gold and a silver at the World Championships and is also the reigning champion at the Asian Games and has also won gold at the Commonwealth Games and Diamond League.
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