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Neeraj Chopra Sorry For Winning Silver, Regrets 'No National Anthem' At Paris Olympic Games
Star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra apologised to the fans for not winning a gold medal at the Paris Olympics 2024. Neeraj, who won a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, had to settle for a silver this time, with Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem taking the gold with a Games record throw of 92.97m. Despite becoming the only Indian track and field athlete to win multiple Olympic medals, Neeraj remains humble as ever. In a viral video, he was seen apologising to the fans after failing to defend his javelin throw crown.
"Never Made An Appeal": Pakistan Businessman's Revelation About Arshad Nadeem's Funding
Pakistan athlete Arshad Nadeem has been grabbing a lot of limelight for all the good reasons as he clinched the gold medal in the Men's Javelin Throw event at the Paris Olympics 2024. Nadeem edged past the defending champion and India star Neeraj Chopra with his monster throw of 92.97m in his second attempt on Thursday (IST). While Chopra settled for silver with his throw of 89.45m, Nadeem became Pakistan's first individual gold medalist at the Olympics. However, Nadeem's journey to reach the Olympic podium was not an easy one as the star athlete faced numerous struggles.
Paris Olympics: Men edge out women for prime time attention once again
After three weeks of Olympic competitions, the Paris 2024 schedule shows that more than 52% of the male sporting events were scheduled between 8 pm and 9 pm.
Wrestling Rule 'Loophole' That Could Help Vinesh Phogat Win Case At CAS, Clinch Silver
Moments away from ultimate glory, Vinesh Phogat saw 'rules' denying her the opportunity to create history for India in the Paris Olympics 2024. The wrestler's disqualification from the Paris Games gold medal match in the 50kg freestyle wrestling bout sent shockwaves all across India, but the wrestler valiantly decided to challenge the result at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Ahead of the expected verdict announcement on Tuesday, it has been reported that the United World Wrestling (UWW) is opposing Vinesh's plea, citing rules.
'Cannot Wrap Your Athletes...': Abhinav Bindra's Big Take On Prakash Padukone's Criticism
Prakash Padukone has faced a lot of criticism for his comments on badminton star Lakshya Sen's loss against Lee Zii Jia in the men's singles bronze medal match at the Paris Olympics 2024. India did not win a single medal in badminton at the Olympics this year with Lakshya coming close but ending fourth in his category. Padukone, who was the coach and mentor of the badminton team at the Paris Olympics, was very disappointed with the results and said that it was "high time the players step up and win as expected". The comments garnered mixed reactions from both fans and players with Ashwini Ponnappa even coming up with a fiery reply. Olympic medallist Abhinav Bindra, who was present at the Paris Olympics 2024 as a part of the International Olympic Committee's Athletes Commission, said that he does not completely disagree with Padukone but believes that "accountability has to be collective".
Sinner plays down hip issue ahead of Cincinnati
Word number one Jannik Sinner said he is not worried about a hip issue that had been troubling him over the last couple of months and that he is looking forward to getting back on court at the U.S. Open tune-up tournament in Cincinnati this week.
Who Is B-Girl India? Meet The 18-Year-Old Breakdancing Sensation At Paris Olympics 2024
One of the new sports introduced into the Paris Olympics 2024 roster was breaking or breakdancing. And through this, a name that has risen to popularity in the Olympics, known as B-Girl India. The 18-year-old breakdancing sensation is already a serial winner, having won gold at the 2022 European Breaking Championship and the 2023 European Games. However, B-Girl India, despite her name, does not have any correlation to India. In fact, she represents the Netherlands. So why is she known by that name?