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Cover sports @ Indian Express. Ex-News9, Firstpost, HT, mid-day Robert Bosch Media Ambassador. Red Ink awardee. Covered Tokyo2020, Birmingham2022. Liver donor.
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#BREAKING: At the stroke of the midnight hour when the world sleeps, India 🇮🇳 will awake to news that 18-year-old #Praggnanandhaa has defeated #MagnuaCarlsen for the first time in a classical game. That too at #Carlsen's home. @IndianExpress. #NorwayChess
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What a headline from Mid-Day today on #SarfarazKhan . Safe to assume it was @ClaytonMurzello sir's work.
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Scenes from yest, where 3 hours after winning gold at #Birmingham2022, #MirabaiChanu was still at the #weightlifting arena, making fans happy. @mirabai_chanu is the perfect uninhibited mascot for the Friendly Games, as #CommonwealthGames are nicknamed.
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'Yeh thodi dikkat hai apne yahaan pe. Gold hi chahiye sabko'.As Indian athletes have started winning medals more consistently on the world stage, our expectations too have grown. A matured response from #NeerajChopra on the need to not have unrealistic expectations from athletes.
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Still wondering what legal right does BCCI have to prevent any cricketer from playing in any league anywhere? You're going to deny a person from earning a livelihood for himself for a year because of a cooling off period that you came up with?.
Players who retire from all forms of cricket, including the Indian Premier League will likely undergo a cooling off period before being allowed to play in an overseas league. ✍️ @pdevendra .
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The kid in his frame is a local girl, Elsie Eyres. She's just six years old. She waited her turn patiently with family and little bro to talk to #MirabaiChanu. And when she got her chance, showed #mirabai her gymnastics training. To everyone's surprise, #mira did a split too
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Two minutes, two goals for Indian women's cricketer #JemimahRodrigues in a local rink hockey tournament in Mumbai. Absolute juggernaut on the pitch.
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Empty stands. An expectant mother. An Indian flag in a fencing hall for the first time. #BhavaniDevi's Table of 32 bout begins soon. #FirstpostInTokyo #Fencing #Tokyo2020 #OlympicGames
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Most likeable man in Indian sport?. PR #Sreejesh gifts his hockey stick and jersey to a Kenyan athlete after the Indian team sealed silver at the #Birmigham2022 #CommonwealthGames
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2018: The year I learnt that there are people out there who inject their camels with botox so that their pets can win a beauty contest for camels.
Saudi Arabia's 'camel beauty pageant' sees 12 beasts disqualified for the use of botox via @ReutersTV
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And while we are still soaking in the men's badminton players winning #ThomasCup2022 gold, 🇮🇳 women's boxers are in quarters at the #IBAWWC2022. 🥊 @nikhat_zareen beats 🏴's Charley Davison 5-0 in quarters to CONFIRM 🇮🇳's FIRST MEDAL.
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And he finds time between multiple media requests to oblige a little kid. #Praggnanandhaa #MagnusCarlsen
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There is a perception that #RaviDahiya doesn’t smile. On medal podiums. In interviews. In mixed zones. Well, he's smiling today, alright.
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Japan is the spiritual home of the niceness industry. Volunteers wave off #TeamIndia women’s #hockey team as they roll out of the Oi Hockey Stadium. #Tokyo2020 #Olympics #FirstpostInTokyo
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Some personal news: Got promoted to News Editor position yesterday. It's a rare bit of good news in an all-round crap year personally. A Diwali miracle!.
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What would #Tokyo2020 #Olympics be without these volunteers? . Clapping off the #Ind women's #hockey team after their win over #Aus . #FirstpostInTokyo
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#NeerajChopra's competition calendar: . June 14: Turku Paavo Nurmi Games. June 18: Kourtane. June 30: Stockholm Diamond League💎. July: World Championships. July-Aug: CWG. Aug: Monaco Diamond League 💎 . Aug: Lausanne Diamond League 💎. Sept: Diamond League 💎 final in Zurich.
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"My wife Reena couldn’t see Chintu (#CheteshwarPujara) play for India. He was 17 when she lost her fight with cancer. Had she been alive to see him play his 100th Test, there couldn’t have been anyone happier than her.". -- @cheteshwar1's dad Arvind, as told to Sandeep Dwivedi.
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Newly-minted #Birmingham22 #CommonwealthGames2022 gold medallist #NikhatZareen says she painted the gold medal on her nails as a reminder she needs to win gold at #CWC2022 for her "ammi".
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Another angle of the men's national team players like @manpreetpawar07 and @rupinderbob3 along with @reidgj applauding the women's team as they walked off the pitch after their defeat
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What an image. Clicked by the relentless @GurinderOsan sir from #Tokyo2020 #Olympics #Hockey #TeamIndia
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Tiny thread for those who say #Ind media doesn't cover other sports. #AditiAshok finished 4th in #Tokyo2020 . Media contingent from #Ind travelled 2 hours to get to #golf course. Almost 5 hours walking step behind Aditi. After that she answered 4 Qs, for 4 mins.
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I'm the last person to understand aesthetics. But this, this is drop-dead gorgeous!!!
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The story of a Samoan floral garland & respect between rivals. Don't know many of you noticed that when #Birmingham2022 gold medallist #JeremyLalrinnunga got off the stage after medal ceremony, he was sporting a peculiar red-flowered garland. It was put around his neck by.
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#AditiAshok finishes FOURTH. What a day. Remember, she's ranked 200th in the world. #FirstpostInTokyo #Tokyo2020 #Olympics #golf
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Over and out from Birmingham, the land where everyone greets you with 'You doin' aight?".Walked 1,51,635 steps in 15 days. Slept 4 hours a day on average. No weekly offs. After 29 copies, over 50 videos, & daily live shows, done with #Birmigham2022. I guess, I did aight.
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Jeremy Lalrinnunga. 19 years old. Gold medallist at #CWG2022. Experienced pain in all three lifts. Fell down to the podium with his last lift. Almost crawled off the stage. But insanely lionhearted. Can still see him being attended to by doctors just behind stage. A STAR.
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Some personal news: Today is my last working day at News9 Digital. A short but a richly-rewarding experience. Cannot thank @MisraSundeep enough for all the opportunities I was given in the 14 months I worked under him. Will be joining the Indian Express sports team in February.
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And here is The Indian Express' exclusive interview, conducted at Stavanger in Norway 🇳🇴 with Praggnanandhaa and Vaishali a day before they both became tournament leaders at @NorwayChess .
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Surendra Karkera, who used to organise the Bipin Memorial Football Tournament in Mumbai, is no more. Had a heart attack today. He used to organise free football camps for school kids every summer. Shocking. Wrote my first piece ever as a journalist on Bipin Memorial.
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Good afternoon from Tokyo. Only shades of blue everywhere the eye can see. #Tokyo2020 #Olympics #TeamIndia #Hockey #FirstpostInTokyo
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In case you're wondering what makes Praggnanandhaa so good, here's a piece we did day before he beat #MagnusCarlsen on how his coach sharpened his calculation skills. What’s even better is Carlsen himself is awed by how good most Indians can calculate.
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At 1966 Asian Games, Hawa Singh walked into the ring at Bangkok & won India its first boxing gold EVER at Asiad. Then he won another gold at 1970 Asiad, once again in Bangkok. 49 years on, his granddaughter Nupur represents India at #AsianBoxingChampionship in Bangkok. My story:
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. his Samoan opponent Vaipava Nevo Ioane. The Samoan said they first met in 2019 at a competition in Samoa. They became friends. There too #Jeremy struggled a bit in C&J. So on Sunday when he was competing, Ioane was kind of rooting for Indian #weightlifter to do well. LISTEN:
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There's a very famous quote in Indian badminton, incidentally from another World Championships four years ago: "Mera petrol khatam ho gaya dekhte dekhte". #LakshyaSen vs #KidambiSrikanth was that sort of a game. #BWFWorldChampionships2021
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#Yamaguchi is known to be a retriever. Runs and runs and runs to elongate rallies until the tired opponent on the other side loses the will to fight and concedes. Not today. #PVSindhu has tired her out today. Body language says it all! #AsianGames2018
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This is by far the best celebration at #Rio2016 . #JPN Risako Kawai after winning #wrestling gold. Lifted my mood.
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Stroke for UK United. #JemimahRodrigues scores. Three goals now for the hockey player who also dabbles in a little cricket 😆
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"I protested, but it was breezy and other athletes were cooling down. It was getting unfair on them". -- #NeerajChopra on why he accepted the decision that he would have to throw again . #AsianGames2022 #AsianGames.
#AsianGames #HangzhouAsianGames. 🗣️ Athletics: Here's what Neeraj Chopra had to say after that chaotic start to the Men's Javelin Throw Final 👇🏽. (From @mihirsv in Hangzhou) .
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"Is baar 90m ka sawaal khatam hi kar doonga," says #neerajchopra at his pre-season virtual press conference answering a question that he has been asked since 2018. "Magical distance hai. Not saying it's not important. I'm sure this year will cross it."
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Good afternoon to only and only Shivani Naik, who had declared yesterday on office WhatsApp group that Yui Susaki could be looking to win medal via repechage. #wrestling #Paris2024 #Olympics.
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Some personal news:. Thrilled to be joining @News9Tweets as News Editor after half a decade with @FirstpostSports. I joined Firstpost in 2017 as an total digital journalism noob, and leave as a semi-total digital journalism noob.
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My favourite backstop of #Olympics so far. Iran shooter Javad Foroughi, who won gold in the 10m air pistol (Saurabh's event), made it to #Tokyo2020 after beating #COVID19. How did he get it? Probably from helping #Covid_19 patients during his day job: nurse in #COVID19 ward.
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Waiting for Indian cricketers to tell him off for interfering in India's internal matter. After all, as a cricket legend tweeted in February, "External forces can be spectators, but not participants.".
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My 83-year-old grandmother has been admitted to Tanvi nursing home in Dahisar (Mumbai) with #COVID. She needs 2 100mg #Remdesivir today. Hospital unable to source. Tried calling Mumbai distributors, but didn't work out. Any leads would be appreciated. @zeeshan_iyc @rubenmasc.
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Have covered sport from all kinds of press boxes. But sitting under a plastic sheet to save myself, and more importantly my laptop, from getting drenched is a new experience.
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People who watch hockey will know this already, but @jannekeschopman is fierce on the sidelines!!!. #indianhockey #FIHNationsCup.
From the first minute to the last, Janneke Schopman was hitting every pass and running ever yard with her team yesterday 💪. Go #Pitchside with her and coaching team for the #FIHNationsCup final 🗣. What a job she’s done with this @TheHockeyIndia team 🇮🇳🏆. 🎥 @watchdothockey
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In a statement to @FirstpostSports today, the International Testing Agency has replied on the news story regarding apparent testing on #HouZhihui who beat #MirabaiChanu to gold. Think story can be laid to rest now. #FirstpostInTokyo #TeamIndia #Tokyo2020 #weightlifting
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A #VineshPhogat is stretchered off, Sun Yanan helps medics with carrying their bag. Great sportsmanship! #Rio2016 #wrestling @HTSportsNews.
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Arrived today. Thank you @bengalurufc. You guys are too kind. And these are even better than in images. Going to the collection.
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Does the BCCI also plan to implement a similar rule that prohibits BCCI office bearers from taking up a position at another organistion for at least a year after their tenure at BCCI ends?.
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#SunilChhetri is lucky to have escaped without an injury there! What terrible turf!.#CHNvIND #BackTheBlue
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Not too far ago, Germany had its golden generation of #javelin throwers, all capable of throwing over 90m. Between them, the trio threw 32 90m throws. But where were they during the #WorldAthleticsChampionships? I spoke to all three to find out their story for our Longread
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#NeerajChopra. 23 years of age. Has never thrown above 90m, while many of his rivals have. GOLD MEDALLIST AT THE OLYMPICS. #TeamIndia's first track and field medallist. that too a gold medallist. Special. #FirstpostInTokyo #Tokyo2020 #Olympics #Javelin #Athletics
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Everyone knows #GayatriGopichand's father. But here's the role #TreesaJolly's father played in her success. Not just her father, her sister too.
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"Camera ka dar toh lagta hai. Pehle khulke nachte the, ab dekhna padta hai ki kahin koi video na bana raha ho," chuckles #NeerajChopra on his newfound fame after #Tokyo2020 #Olympics, where anything he does has the potential to go viral, and the pressures of being a "celebrity".
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A bit of personal news. After three years of applying for Robert Bosch Stiftung's 'Media Ambassadors India-Germany' fellowship, happy to announce that I have been named as one of the eight Indian fellows for 2019.
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Sourav Ganguly and his sense of timing! . Knew when to take his Tshirt off & whirl it in celebration (sanctity of Lord's be damned). And knows when to be magnanimous and kind to our neighbours rather than taking cheap potshots at them when they're down.
Former India captain #SouravGanguly extends his well wishes to our panellists and also advises on what adjustments should #PakistanCricket make to become a strong cricketing nation like India. #ASportsHD #ARYZAP #CWC23 #ThePavilion #ShoaibMalik #WasimAkram #FakhreAlam
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Honoured, & a little shocked, to have won top prize in SCARF Media For Mental Health Awards for #MindOverMedals, our series on athlete mental well-being. It's an honour that usually goes to country's top health scribes. Congratulations @Bhardwajmeha. Thanks @SRFmentalhealth
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#NeerajChopra spotted in the stands to cheer the Indian U19 women's cricket team as they stand on cusp of history. #INDvENG #U19T20WorldCup
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"I pick up injuries easily. But each time I'd be injured, @SjoerdMarijne said, 'you're the Ferrari of this team. When time comes for you to perform, you will. Wait for your moment.'". After long injury lay-off, India's 'Ferrari' @imranirampal ready to roll.
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Hikaru Nakamura vibing to Chaiyan Chaiyan while playing Magnus Carlsen in Bullet Chess Championship!. "This Indian music has got me going."
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One day after #Tokyo2020 #Olympics #ClosingCeremony. Last two journalists left behind at Tokyo's Main Press Centre. Photo clicked by one of the 20-odd volunteers manning the help desk.
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What a photo of #ViratKohli from Reuters photog Andrew Boyers from the #INDvsAUSfinal . #WorldcupFinal
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Congratulations on your fancy stadiums, China. Now buy yourself something that helps you accurately measure the distance a javelin lands at. #NeerajChopra #AsianGames.
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It's been eight years since @piresrobert7 came to India to play for @FCGoaOfficial in the inaugural season of #ISL. The love he got that season meant he still follows their results. He also mentions how passionate fans of #KeralaBlasters left an impression on him.
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#NeerajChopra showing once again why he's different. If this incident had happened to any1 else, could've derailed their campaign. They would have felt victimised or felt like things were unfair. Not #Neeraj. As some1 said, only time he protested today was for Kishore.#ASIANGAMES.
🚨🚨 MEDALS ALERT 🚨🚨. #NeerajChopra claims gold medal, #KishoreKumarJena takes silver in men's javelin throw event after bizarre double goof up from officials . #AsianGames2023medals | #AsianGames.
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Her mom, who caddied for her, refused point-blank to talk. I know people'll say it's athlete's discretion. It is.Definitely. But just putting across this for those who say Indian media ignores certain sports. @mihirsv @BoriaMajumdar @JesuisShyam @tweet2avishek @karishmasingh22.
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Your reminder that almost exactly a year ago, #JemimahRodrigues was playing in a rink hockey tournament in Mumbai. And bossing it. #T20WorldCup2023 #TeamIndia.
Two minutes, two goals for Indian women's cricketer #JemimahRodrigues in a local rink hockey tournament in Mumbai. Absolute juggernaut on the pitch.
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Crazy scenes at the end of the #hockey semi-final. Indians shellshocked. Even more revealingly, some of the #Malaysians are openly sobbing. Their team huddle was actually a group prayer with the goalkeeper on all fours in the centre. #AsianGames2018
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During #WorldCup final, people were angry that camera was showing some celebrities in stands again & again, but never once showed #NeerajChopra. So obviously when the history-maker was a guest for Idea Exchange, I asked him. The answer of a humble athlete.
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A classy touch from @jswsports during the felicitation function for India's #Tokyo2020 heroes at @IIS_Vijayanagar. People behind the scenes, such as accountants and logistics people, being felicitated.
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Turning out to be one of the greatest protests at #Tokyo2020 . #MouradAliev was talked away from the boxing ring. But after conversations between his entourage and boxing officials broke down, he has returned to take his spot on the canvas. #Boxing #Olympics
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Athletics schedule for @Paris2024 is out. Aug 6: Men's javelin throw Qs.Aug 7: Anniversary of #NeerajChopra winning gold at #Tokyo2020.Aug 8: Men's javelin final. 1/2.
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#PVSindhu wins this 21-19, 21-10 against Nozomi Okuhara in #Rio2016 #Badminton @HTSportsNews @htTweets.
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Hi, anyone know what the legal procedure is to disqualify and change officials mid-way during a javelin throw event?. Asking for a couple of compatriots. #NeerajChopra #AsianGames2022 #AsianGames
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Last year, when the announcement was made, I had the chance to talk to @superfan_nav about being part of a special gallery at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Still rubbing his eyes in disbelief, he spoke of his journey into super fandom.
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Completed three years at @FirstpostSports last month. Seems just like yesterday I was struggling with concepts like SEO and social media posts. Actually, I may have been struggling with those things yesterday as well!.
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Making a mental note to remember this night forever. #NeerajChopra #Tokyo2020 #Olympics #FirstpostInTokyo #Athletics
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#BREAKING: #NeerajChopra wins gold at the #KuortaneGames2022 meet, registering just legal throw of 86.69m. That was enough in wet conditions.
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