NEW DELHI: In a big setback to India's medal hopes at the CWG, Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra was on Tuesday ruled out of the Birmingham Games due to a groin injury, Indian Olympic Association's (IOA) secretary general Rajeev Mehta informed in a statement.
Neeraj had picked up the injury during the recently-concluded World Athletics Championships in USA's Eugene, where he had created history by becoming only the second Indian and first male track and field athlete to win a medal -- a silver -- at the Worlds. In the process, he ended the Indian athletics' 19-year-long wait for a second medal at the Worlds after long jumper Anju Bobby George's bronze in Paris in 2003.
