: Cash rewards, free air travel and more: Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra flooded with prizes and gifts #IndiaNEWS Indian companies and governments promised cash and gifts worth more than two million

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Cash rewards, free air travel and more: Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra flooded with prizes and gifts #IndiaNEWS
Indian companies and governments promised cash and gifts worth more than two million dollars to javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra after he won India’s first-ever Olympic athletics gold medal.The 23-year-old farmer’s son, who two years ago underwent surgery on a career-threatening elbow injury, threw 87.58 metres in the Tokyo Olympic stadium on Saturday to send his country into raptures.Chopra led India’s most successful Olympics ever with a gold, two silver medals and four bronze.He will lead a cash bonanza for the winning athletes – the government in his home state of Haryana said it would give Chopra a Rs 60 million (0,000) bonus.Other state governments offered another 0,000 between them and a leading education company promised 0,000.Chopra said he hoped the Olympic gold would be a turning point for his country’s athletes.“In athletics, I feel we have missed medals by fine margins over the years. So this medal was important,� he said.“Now that I have won, I feel we can do anything.�Chopra was up against the previously in-form Johannes Vetter of Germany who had thrown a season’s best of 96.29 metres before the Olympics, but had an off day and failed to qualify for the throw-off as one of the top eight.“If the first throw is good, then you grow...Read more

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