Indian men’s nationalist hockey squad skipper Harmanpreet Singh, right, with subordinate Manpreet Singh, left, and erstwhile hockey goalkeeper PR Sreejesh during the JSW felicitation event. (PTI)
Neeraj Chopra mightiness person created past for India by winning back-to-back Olympics medals, but the champion javelin thrower is anxious to repetition past successful the LA Olympics. It remains his people to spot the Indian anthem being played astatine the Olympic podium again. Chopra’s begetter Satish Chopra, who was contiguous during a felicitation ceremonial by JSW Sports successful Chandigarh, shared however the champion jock is not contended with the 2 Olympics medals and anxious to triumph more.
“Neeraj has ever cherished winning medals for India and seeing the Indian emblem emergence precocious astatine the Olympics podium. When helium is home, helium likes to observe these medals with tiny moments of joyousness and that’s what keeps america surviving his imagination too. He has ever aspired to amended himself since his puerility and that volition beryllium his people arsenic agelong arsenic helium represents India astatine the planetary stage,” said Satish. Chopra’s uncle Bhim Chopra excessively echoed the thought. “If Neeraj coming from a mean household tin triumph an Olympic medal, past immoderate kid successful India tin execute specified a dream,” the Olympics medallist’s uncle said.
The lawsuit besides featured the members of the Paris Olympics bronze medal winning hockey squad including skipper Harmanpreet Singh, and bronze medal winning shooters Swapnil Kusale and Sarabjot Singh.
“From travelling to my colony Dhin to Ambala to bid regular arsenic a youngster to winning the bronze medal astatine Paris Olympics remains vocation precocious for me. but past this is conscionable the commencement and making India arrogant again astatine the Olympics remains the target,” said Sarabjot, who paired up with Manu Bhaker to triumph the 10m aerial pistol mixed squad successful the Paris Olympics.
Indian hockey skipper Harmanpreet Singh shared that the Indian hockey squad is not contending with winning back-to-back bronze medals successful Olympics. “We volition effort for much successful our careers. We are not satisfied with the bronze medal successful Tokyo and Paris and till the clip we bash not triumph the Olympics golden medal, our travel volition spell on. Indian hockey has been connected the emergence and we are bare for more,” added Harmanpreet.
While Paris Olympics aggregate bronze medallist shooter Bhaker missed her formation from Delhi to Chandigarh and could not be the event, her begetter Ram Kishan Bhaker shared however the jock regrouped herself aft the debacle successful Tokyo Olympics.
“As a youngster, Manu started playing martial arts and aboriginal boxing too. We supported her successful immoderate tract she wanted to prosecute and she ever wanted to excel successful immoderate tract she competes in. Obviously, she was disappointed with what happened successful Tokyo but past she besides understood that the pistol malfunction tin hap anytime and determination is simply a 1 successful a cardinal accidental that it tin happen. It was important for her to hide astir Tokyo and refocus and that’s what she did successful Paris. To triumph 2 medals for India and to travel 4th successful 1 event, wherever she thinks she could person won the gold, has been the highest constituent successful her vocation and determination volition beryllium much specified moments,” said Ram Kishan.
Meanwhile, Parth Jindal, laminitis JSW Sports, shared his thoughts erstwhile helium started the imagination of supporting Indian athletes. “We started the imagination to enactment athletes astatine a young signifier successful 2012. I had travelled done Europe and the US and saw the specialised grooming centres arsenic good the enactment astatine the collegiate level. Our imagination was to make specified centres successful India and that’s what JSW Sports and IIS aspire to do,” helium said.
“Whatever we are doing, we are complementing immoderate enactment the authorities is providing and I americium gladsome that we tin lend to India’s medal tally astatine the Olympics since 2012. We spot america supporting much than 50 athletes for the Los Angeles Olympics and hopefully India wins much medals successful LA,” concluded the JSW founder.
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Nitin Sharma is an Assistant Editor with the sports squad of The Indian Express. Based retired of Chandigarh, Nitin works with the people sports table portion besides breaking quality stories for the online sports team. A Ramnath Goenka Excellence successful Journalism Award recipient for the twelvemonth 2017 for his communicative ‘Harmans of Moga’, Nitin has besides been a two-time recipient of the UNFPA-supported Laadli Media Awards for Gender Sensitivity for the years 2022 and 2023 respectively. Nitin chiefly covers Olympics sports disciplines with his main interests successful shooting, boxing, wrestling, athletics and overmuch more. The past 17 years with The Indian Express has seen him unearthing stories crossed India from arsenic acold arsenic Andaman and Nicobar to the North East. Nitin besides covers cricket isolated from women’s cricket with a keen interest. Nitin has covered events similar the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the 2011 ODI World Cup, 2016 T20 World Cup and the 2017 AIBA World Youth Boxing Championships. An alumnus of School of Communication Studies, Panjab University, from wherever helium completed his Masters successful Mass Communications degree, Nitin has been an avid quizzer too. A Guru Nanak Dev University Colour holder, Nitin’s involvement successful quizzing began successful the municipality of Talwara Township, a tiny municipality adjacent the Punjab-Himachal Pradesh border. When not reporting, Nitin's interests prevarication successful discovering caller treks successful the mountains oregon spending clip adjacent the stream Beas astatine his hometown. ... Read More
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