{"id":349687,"date":"2024-08-09T00:36:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T06:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=349687"},"modified":"2024-08-14T06:32:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T12:02:57","slug":"golden-boy-wins-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/golden-boy-wins-silver\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden boy wins silver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/08\/Indias-Golden-Boy-Neeraj-Chopra-wins-silver-medal-at-Paris-Olympics-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-349688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/08\/Indias-Golden-Boy-Neeraj-Chopra-wins-silver-medal-at-Paris-Olympics-2024.jpg 640w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/08\/Indias-Golden-Boy-Neeraj-Chopra-wins-silver-medal-at-Paris-Olympics-2024-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>India\u2019s Golden Boy Neeraj Chopra wins silver medal at Paris Olympics 2024. The first Indian to win track and field medals at two Olympic Games.Pakistan\u2019s Arshad Nadeem grabs top position with a monstrous throw of 92.97 in second attempt gave a tough competition to India\u2019s Neeraj Chopra who threw 89.45 in his second attempt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Javelin throw turned out to be India versus Pakistan just like in cricket with Pakistan\u2019s Nadeem, grabing first position in Javelin throw<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>followed by India\u2019s Neeraj Chopra getting silver and Anderson Peters from Grenada getting bronze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India is yet to win gold in these games and this is the fifth medal overall, Chopra has won many medals and has placed himself in the golden books of Indian Sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After winning silver medal Neeraj chopra said, it was probably not my day. \u2018Every day is not yours, losing and winning is a part of game\u2019. Either we win or lose. \u201cIt was Arshad\u2019s day,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Aaj Arshad ka din tha\u2026\u2019\u2019<\/strong>\u2018 I gave my best but it was Arshad day it\u2019s time to improve the game now\u2026\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On&nbsp;Neeraj Chopra&nbsp;winning a silver medal his mother Saroj Devi said, \u2018We are very happy, for us silver is also equal to gold&#8230; he was injured, but still he played well, so we are happy with his performance\u2019,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is also happy for Nadeem performance who won gold, \u2018All the athletes are like her own children.\u2019 She also reveals that she will cook Neeraj&#8217;s favourite food when he returns home. Her comment is winning millions of hearts on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neeraj became the first Indian to win back to back Olympic medal after independence. He is an inspiration to millions of Indians, the whole country is proud of him and is celebrating his victorious win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Golden Boy Neeraj Chopra wins silver medal at Paris Olympics 2024. The first Indian to win track and field medals at two Olympic Games.Pakistan\u2019s Arshad Nadeem grabs top position with a monstrous throw of 92.97 in second attempt gave a tough competition to India\u2019s Neeraj Chopra who threw 89.45 in his second attempt. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":349688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[18436,18437,15924,18435,18430],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349687"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349733,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349687\/revisions\/349733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/349688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}