Neeraj Chopra Classic 2025: India’s star athlete and Olympic gold medalist Neeraj Chopra has broken his silence amid controversy over an invitation to Pakistani spear throwing player Arshad Nadeem for the ‘Neeraj Chopra Classic’ event. Before the terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Neeraj Chopra invited the event to be held in India.
He clarified, “My decision was completely related to sports and honor of players, not related to any political or emotional agenda.” Apart from this, he has also strongly objected to those targeting his mother in this matter. Neeraj Chopra shared a post on social media. Significantly, Paris Olympic gold medalist Arshad Nadeem refused to participate in the ‘Neeraj Chopra Classic’ competition after a terrorist attack in Pahalgam.
What is in Neeraj’s social media post?
Chopra said through social media posts, ‘Usually I speak very little, but when it comes to my country, my family respect and truth, I cannot remain silent. Arshad Nadeem was given by one player to another player and its purpose was to make India the center of world class sports events. Two days before the terrorist attack in Pahalgam, invitations were sent to all the players for the event on Monday.
In this post, Neeraj clarified that, ‘Arshad’s participation was canceled in view of the situation after the Pahalgam attack.’ And in such a situation, it is not possible to have Arshad’s arrival at all. The country and its interests are always paramount for me.
Neeraj Chopra is saddened by the mother being targeted
Neeraj has also said with great grief in this post, ‘I am saddened by personal attacks on me and my family.’ In the post, Neeraj said, ‘We are common people, please do not consider us wrong, false stories being spread by some media are not true.
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