He may have entered this competition as the underdog, perhaps with a little less of the name recognition of his Indian rival Neeraj Chopra, but Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem wrote his name in the stars in the Stade de France on Thursday night, winning the men’s javelin final to become the first track and field athlete from Pakistan to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games.
And he did it with panache, beating his longtime rival and equally longtime friend Chopra, and smashing an Olympic record in the process.
