Elated for her son’s silver medal, Neeraj Chopra’s mother Saroj Devi also expressed happiness for Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem, who broke the Olympic record to beat the Indian defending champion in Paris, saying the latter is also like her “child”.
Chopra clinched the silver medal at the Paris Games with a season’s best throw of 89.45m after Nadeem pulled off an Olympic record-breaking effort of 92.97m on Thursday night.
With the silver win, Chopra became only the third Indian and the first in track-and-field to win back-to-back individual Olympic medals.
“We are very happy with the silver, the one who got gold is also our child and the one who got silver is also our child…. All are athletes, all work hard,” Saroj told PTI Videos in Khandra, Panipat, where the family is based.