Regardless of his greatest throw of 89.45 meters, the 26-year-old Neeraj narrowly missed out on defending his gold medal title.Though he delivered a powerful throw on his second try, he encountered difficulties with 4 consecutive foul throws, which finally prevented him from clinching the gold. Nonetheless, Neeraj’s accomplishment makes him the second male athlete from post-independence India to safe two Olympic medals in a person occasion.
Sumariwalla expressed his perception that folks usually place extreme emphasis on medals, a perspective he personally disagrees with. He highlighted that Neeraj had overcome an damage to say the silver medal, demonstrating an “unbelievably good” efficiency within the remaining occasion.
“I believe folks give an excessive amount of stress on medals. I’m a kind of who would not speak about medals. I believe if the method is correct, medals will come. Have a look at what occurred. He got here again from an damage. In Tokyo, he received a golden. Immediately he threw 2 meters greater than he threw in Tokyo however needed to accept a silver…He received a season’s greatest. I believe he is a tiger. He fought like a tiger. He recovered from an damage and he was simply unbelievably good…He is a champion. That is what champions are manufactured from….,” Sumariwalla informed ANI.
Neeraj confronted challenges throughout the competitors. His first and third makes an attempt have been dominated invalid attributable to purple flags, and his remaining three makes an attempt have been additionally deemed fouls.
This got here as a shock contemplating his spectacular efficiency within the qualification spherical, the place he threw a powerful 89.34 meters.
Regardless of his greatest efforts, Neeraj’s second-best throw of 89.45 meters was not ample to safe the gold medal.
The strain appeared to be mounting on him earlier than his fifth try, and he sadly crossed the road as soon as extra, leading to one other purple flag. His sixth and remaining try met the identical destiny, as he crossed the road whereas releasing the javelin, resulting in disqualification.
