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Indian Olympic gold medallist and World Champion Neeraj Chopra will miss the upcoming Ostrava Golden Spike 2024 athletics meet in the Czech Republic. Star javelin thrower will miss the event because he doesn't want to take any risk ahead of the Paris Olympics 2024.
Neeraj Chopra will attend the 63rd edition of the annual athletics competition as a guest on Tuesday. The hosts of the competition have replaced Neeraj Chopra with Germany's Julian Weber.
Neeraj Chopra on Missing Ostrava Golden Spike 2024
Neeraj took his Instagram to announce that he will not perform in the Ostrava Golden Spike 2024 event, he also said that he will get back to competitions.
“I have had problems with it in the past and pushing it at this stage can lead to injury. Just to clarify, I am not injured but I don't want to take any risk during the Olympic year so had to take this decision. Once I feel it's fully recovered, I will get back to competitions,” Neeraj Chopra said.
Neeraj Chopra in Federation Cup athletics meet
Chopra was recently featured in the Federation Cup athletics meet in Bhubaneswar and won gold medal that was his first competitive outing in India since 2021.
"Let's not talk about the throw, it was not up to it. This one is not one of my consistent performances," Neeraj had said after the event.
"It felt great to compete in India after a long time. I wanted to play in India and I performed according to the conditions, and the way my body was feeling. I have some big competitions coming up. I thought DP Manu would take over but his javelin kept landing quickly," Neeraj added.
Neeraj Chopra is listed to compete in the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku, Finland next on June 18.
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