Star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra on Thursday clarified that he and Arshad Nadeem were never really close friends and said things won’t be the same between India and Pakistan after the recent conflict.
The decorated athlete and his family were bombarded with “abuse” on social media for inviting Pakistan’s Nadeem to the now-postponed NC Classic in Bengaluru, in the aftermath of last month’s Pahalgam terror attack.
On the eve of the Diamond League here, the two-time Olympic medallist and reigning world champion, sough to set the record straight when asked about his equation with Nadeem, who won the gold medal in the Paris Games last year after the Indian finished at the top of the podium in the Tokyo edition in 2021. PTI
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