In cricket-mad Pakistan, gold medal javelin athlete Arshad Nadeem has become a celebrity
Pakistan's javelin gold medallist at the Paris Olympics 2024 Arshad Nadeem waves to his fans from a bus upon his arrival at the Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore on Aug. 11, 2024.More than a decade after making a javelin from a bamboo stick in a small village in Pakistan’s Punjab province, Arshad Nadeem stunned the world with his Olympic gold medal-winning throw at the Paris Games.
The throw has earned Nadeem more than US$1-million – Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has promised a sum of 150 million rupees and chief minister Punjab Mariam Nawaz handed him a check for 100 million rupees in his village last Tuesday.In a cricket-loving country of 250 million, it was no surprise that Nadeem took up the bat and ball sport at a young age. It was only after his elder brother and father suggested that he try his hand at javelin or shot put that Nadeem forgot about cricket.
“I started to train for Paris soon after Tokyo Olympics because I knew it, I can do something special for Pakistan,” Nadeem said in the TV interview aired Thursday. “I stopped watching social media two days before the qualifying round because I was the last hope of millions of Pakistanis back home,” Nadeem said.
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