After tracking Vikram’s Lunar mission, the flight of the javelin in the men’s event — the final of which is around midnight on August 27 — will be the next focus of the Indian fans as the World Athletics Championships begins at the Hungarian city of Budapest on Saturday.
India’s poster boy Neeraj Chopra has taken the country, which for decades lived on the highs and lows from near misses of Milkha Singh and PT Usha, to new heights with the gold medal heave at the Tokyo Olympics.