Everyone is aware of the friendship between Arshad Nadeem and Neeraj Chopra. When these two athletes are on the field, they are rivals of each other, but their friendship is very strong after the field. When Arshad Nadeem won the gold and Neeraj Chopra won the silver medal in the Paris Olympics, Neeraj’s mother Saroj Devi described the Pakistani athlete as her son. This statement of Neeraj’s mother made a lot of headlines. Now Arshad Nadeem has given a heart-touching reply to her statement. Arshad says that his mother prays for everyone and he is grateful.
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Arshad Nadeem, who reached Pakistan after winning the gold medal, while talking to the media said, “If you look at it, everyone has a mother, a mother prays for everyone… I am thankful to Neeraj Chopra’s mother, she is also my mother. She prayed for us and we were the only two players from South Asia in the whole world who performed.”
It is not that this message was sent from India only for Arshad Nadeem, Arshad’s mother had said some special words for Neeraj from Pakistan too. Nadeem’s mother Razia Parveen had also expressed her affection towards Neeraj and called him Arshad’s brother and friend.
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He had said, “He is like my son. He is Nadeem’s friend as well as brother.”
Let us tell you, Arshad Nadeem won the gold medal for Pakistan by breaking the Olympic record. He covered a distance of 92.97 meters in his second throw. He crossed the 90 meter mark not once but twice in the final. Nadeem threw his last throw 91.79 meters away. With this, Nadeem was successful in winning the gold medal for Pakistan after 32 years. Neeraj Chopra remained in second place with a throw of 89.45 meters.
