“A mom is a mom for everybody, so she prays for everybody too. I am grateful to Neeraj Chopra’s mom. She’s my mom too. She prayed for us, and we had been simply two gamers from South Asia who carried out on the world stage,” Nadeem instructed Pakistani media after returning house to a hero’s welcome within the early hours of Sunday.
Nadeem’s historic victory within the javelin throw on the Paris Olympics, marked by a record-breaking throw of 92.97 meters, earned him a grand homecoming.Lots of of cheering followers greeted him on the airport, celebrating not simply his Olympic gold but in addition Pakistan’s first Olympic medal in over three many years, its first gold in forty years.
Earlier, Raziah Parveen, Nadeem’s mom, expressed her affection for Indian javelin star Neeraj Chopra, whom she described as each a buddy and a brother to her son. “Woh bhi mere bete jaisa hai. Woh Nadeem ka dost bhi hai, bhai bhi hai (He is sort of a son to me. He’s Nadeem’s buddy and likewise like a brother),” Parveen shared with Pakistani media, revealing that she had been praying for each athletes’ success.
The spirit of mutual respect and help was echoed by Neeraj Chopra’s mom, Saroj Devi, who expressed pleasure over her son’s silver medal whereas acknowledging Nadeem’s gold as a victory for a “little one”. “We’re very pleased with the silver; the one who obtained gold can also be our little one,” Saroj Devi mentioned.
Neeraj Chopra, who secured the silver medal with a throw of 89.45 meters, had earlier advocated for higher help for Nadeem from the Pakistani authorities through the latter’s woes with broken javelin.
