India’s golden boy Neeraj Chopra on Sunday (26 May) pulled out from the Ostrava Golden Spike 2024. The information caught the eye of Indian followers pondering the javelin thrower is injured and will additionally miss the Paris Olympics 2024 set to happen this 12 months in France. However, Neeraj took on social media to make clear the entire state of affairs.
Chopra took to X and wrote, “Hello everyone! Following a recent throwing session, I decided not to compete in Ostrava as I felt something in my adductor. I have had problems with it in the past and pushing it at this stage can lead to injury.” (Watch: Neeraj Chopra Narrowly Misses Top Spot in Doha Diamond League Javelin Throw, Video Goes Viral)
He added, Just to make clear, I’m not injured however I do not need to take any threat through the Olympic 12 months so needed to take the choice. Once I really feel its totally recovered, I’ll get again to competitions. Thank you in your help (sic).”
This marks the second successive 12 months that Neeraj needed to pull out of the Ostrava Golden Spike. He was additionally listed to compete final 12 months however did not make it on account of a muscle harm.
The Ostrava meet was presupposed to be Neeraj Chopra‘s third aggressive outing of the season.
Before the beginning of the upcoming Paris Olympics 2024, Neeraj began his season on the Doha Diamond League on May 11 and led to second place with a throw of 88.36m. Recently, Chopra competed on the Federation Cup athletics meet in Bhubaneswar on May 15 and received the gold medal in his first aggressive outing in India since 2021. The ace javelin thrower logged a shocking throw of 82.27m to beat Manu DP on the Kalinga Stadium. This was his first home competitors after his gold medal win within the Tokyo Olympics again in 2021. Neeraj Chopra is listed to compete within the Paavo Nurmi Games in Finland’s Turku subsequent on June 18.
