Neeraj chopra: Neeraj Chopra of India has been praised by everyone since taking home the javelin gold medal at the Olympics in Tokyo. However, compliments from the sprinting world’s best are difficult to top. The legendary American sprinter Michael Johnson, who has won four Olympic gold medals, said on Wednesday, “He’s a javelin thrower! Olympic champion javelin thrower, but a javelin thrower. With sprinter/jumper movement!”
Johnson was speechless
Johnson, who has eight gold medals from the World Championships and who also held the 200-meter and 400-meter world and Olympic records, was astounded by a video of Chopra warming up at an indoor track before an event. In the video, Chopra can be seen moving fluidly and relatively easily through his warm-up exercises. It might be evidence of his thorough training in the US throughout 2022. Johnson was speechless, in awe that a javelin thrower, whose emphasis is on strength, could move with the flexibility and quickness of a jumper and a sprinter combined.
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First Indian to hold a Diamond League championship
Following Anju Bobby George’s bronze medal in the women’s long jump in 2003, the 25-year-old Chopra had an incredible 2022 after winning silver at the World Championships in Oregon. When Chopra won the match in Zurich in September, he also made history by becoming the first Indian to hold a Diamond League championship.
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