Athletics: Neeraj Chopra contemplates surgery to fix recurring injury after season ends

As Neeraj Chopra stood on the podium at the Stade de France, he finally let out a smile. This was a day after he stood poker faced with the Indian tricolour wrapped around his back and posed alongside fellow medallists Arshad Nadeem and Anderson Peters.

Chopra was on the podium for a second consecutive Olympic Games. But, he had failed to defend his title from Tokyo. In Paris, he was the silver medallist behind Pakistan’s Nadeem, who broke the men’s javelin throw Olympic record.

“Gold toh gold hain, gold is gold,” Chopra said in a media interaction felicitated by JSW on Saturday. “You cannot compare any medal with the other. It depends on where and under what situations, you have won.

“The kind of situation that I was in, how my journey has been in the last couple of years and the amount of throwing sessions I had, I am happy with whatever I got and how I performed.”

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The situation is something Chopra would keep on referring to time and again in the 40-minute long conversation. The Indian athlete and his team were faced with a situation out of their control – his groin injury.

Chopra first picked up...

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