When Arshad Nadeem didn’t even have a Pakistani flag ‼️
Pakistani athlete Arshad Nadeem became the center of attention in Tokyo Olympics 2020. In these competitions, India’s Neeraj Chopra won the gold medal while Arshad Nadeem secured the fifth position. On this occasion, there was hope among the people that this young man of Pakistan can win an Olympic medal for Pakistan after three decades of waiting.
Earlier, Arshad Nadeem had won the bronze medal in Asian Games 2018 Jakarta, the gold medal was also won by Neeraj Chopra in these events. But no one in Pakistan paid attention to Arshad Nadeem, he did not get facilities for training, nor was he encouraged by the authorities!
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Before that, he had also achieved success in junior competitions and South Asian Games. But who paid attention to this? Arshad Nadeem continued to work under your help. Neeraj Chopra could not participate in the 2022 Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham. Arshad Nadeem won the gold medal.
In the same year, Arshad Nadeem entered the field again in the World Athletics Championship held in America. This time too, luck did not support him and he remained at the fifth position. Fate was kind to Neeraj Chopra and he won the silver medal. And then came the opportunity whose picture is attached. World Athletics Championship 2023, Budapest, Hungary. Neeraj Chopra gold and Arshad Nadeem proved South Asia’s dominance in the javelin throw world with silver. Third position was Jakob Widlich of Czech Republic. But the sad part was that Arshad Nadeem or any official or any spectator There was no Pakistani flag to be hoisted on this world stage.
After the match, the winning players started taking pictures for press and media, Arshad was hesitant, Indian and Czech players were wrapping their country’s flag. Regarding this, Neeraj Chopra later told that Arshad Nadeem did not have a flag, so he called him to take pictures together without it. He said that Arshad played very well for Pakistan. I was sorry that he didn’t have the flag and he was also sad about it, but he got it later. And now once again Arshad Nadeem and Neeraj Chopra are ready to show their strength and talent on a field in Paris Olympics 2024. Let’s see whose feet success will kiss this time.
After qualifying for the finals on August 8, Arshad Nadeem has expressed his best wishes for Neeraj Chopra in these words: “It is a matter of great joy for me that only two of us from South Asia, me and Neeraj Bhai will compete against other players at the world level. “I hope that we will make our country famous at the international level by performing well.” The last time Pakistan won a medal in an individual event at the Olympics was at the Seoul Olympics in 1988 when Hussain Shah won the bronze medal in the boxing event.
