Olympic Games in Tokyo: The Indian contingent landed in Delhi in the afternoon and will now be brought to the Ashoka Hotel, where the athletes and medalists will be congratulated.
Neeraj Chopra had wrestler Vinesh Phogat as company on the plane (India Today Photo)
HIGHLIGHTS
- Neeraj Chopra led the Indian contingent out of Delhi airport
- Neeraj Chopra said he was very happy to be home again after his heroics in Tokyo 2020
- Neeraj Chopra took India’s second individual gold medal at the Olympics after winning the javelin final
Tokyo Olympics winner Neeraj Chopra was ambushed at Delhi Airport by thousands of fans waiting for hours to meet the javelin thrower when he returned home with nearly 80 other Indian athletes.
The Indian contingent landed in Delhi in the afternoon and will be taken to the Ashoka Hotel, where the athletes and medalists will be congratulated.
Neeraj Chopra, the man of the moment, had the largest crowd around him compared to the rest of the athletes, but India Today still managed to get a reaction from the second Olympic gold winner of independent India after Abhinav Bindra.
“It feels great to be home again, that’s what I expected,” Neeraj told India Todays Rahul Rawat.
Welcome home master!
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Neeraj Chopra’s parents left Panipat for Delhi early Monday morning. They were at the airport to greet their son, India’s new national hero. Indira Gandhi Airport had a festive mood when India’s only Olympic athletics champion landed on home soil on Saturday according to the story’s script.
(India today photo)
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Neeraj Chopra, who spoke to India Today, had said he didn’t want to talk to spend a lot of time talking to his parents on the phone as he wanted to spend a lot of time with them alone in their apartment explaining to them how it felt when he got up on the Olympic podium with the Indian national anthem in the National Stadium in Tokyo.
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“I haven’t been able to speak to them yet. I don’t want to talk to them so quickly. I want to sit down nicely and talk to them. I can’t talk to them the way I talk to all of you, with limited time, I’ll talk to them as much time as possible, ”Neeraj told India Today in Tokyo on Sunday.
Neeraj became only the second individual Olympic champion from India. He put an end to India’s 13-year wait for the national anthem at the Olympic Games award ceremony. The 23-year-old Panipat showed his self-confident best time when he blew away the rest of the field in the men’s javelin final.
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