Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem declares his innocence while picking up Neeraj Chopra’s javelin

Neeraj Chopra, who won Gold in Tokyo Olympics 2020, claimed in an interview to TOI that Arshad Nadeem was roaming around with his javelin before the start of the final competition.

A day after Tokyo Olympics gold medallist Neeraj Chopra defended his Pakistan counterpart Arshad Nadeem’s actions in picking up his javelin before the final, the Pakistani Olympian has also reacted to the allegations. Nadeem claimed that all the javelin were provided by the International Olympic Committee and he started practising with one in the rack. “Actually, javelins were provided by the Olympic committee. I was practicing with a Javelin and Neeraj came to me and said it was his Javelin so I gave him,” Nadeem was quoted as saying by Arysports.tv. “I am not sure whether that Javelin was provided to the management by India or not. Maybe it was his favourite and he wanted to throw with it. That’s why he came to me and ask for that Javelin,” he added.