NEW DELHI: India’s Olympic hero Neeraj Chopra won’t shield his Commonwealth Games lance title in Birmingham because of injury, the country’s Olympic affiliation said on Tuesday, two days in front of the initial service.
Chopra, 24, got the injury during the World Athletics Championships in Oregon, where he won silver at the end of the week.
The Indian Olympic Association didn’t express out loud whatever the injury was nevertheless in the wake of coming next behind Grenada’s Anderson Peters he griped about “uneasiness” in his thigh.
Chopra was the defending champ at the Commonwealth Games, what start on Thursday.
“Chopra had called me recently from the US to pass his failure on to participate in the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games attributable to wellness concerns,” Indian Olympic Association secretary general Rajeev Mehta said in a proclamation. “[He] had a MRI check done on Monday and, in view of it, he has been exhorted a month’s rest by his clinical group.”
Chopra left a mark on the world for his nation when he won the spear finally summer’s Tokyo Games, turning into India’s most memorable Olympic sports gold medallist.
Chopra, who hails from the northern Indian province of Haryana, dominated the Asian Matches and Commonwealth Games gold in 2018 and had been picked as India’s banner carrier for Thursday’s initial service of the July 28-Aug. 8 Commonwealth Games.
“Neeraj has expressed that since he isn’t 100% fit to contend at the Commonwealth Games, he wouldn’t be the banner conveyor of the Indian contingent at the competitors’ motorcade in the initial service,” Athletics Federation of India president Adille Sumariwalla said in an explanation.
Chopra had been in excellent condition this season until the injury struck. He broke his own public record at the Diamond League in Stockholm in June as he enrolled an individual best toss of 89.94m.
India, the Commonwealth’s most crowded country, isn’t by and large known as a donning force to be reckoned with — aside from cricket — yet it has routinely performed well at the Games.
Its competitors came third in the awards table behind has Australia, and England, at the Gold Coast and were in the main five at the past four.
