23 year old Neeraj Chopra just won the first Olympic Gold for India in Athletics.

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monstaber on August 7th, 2021 at 14:25 UTC »

2 throws over 87m right off the bat, well done!

pandasareblack on August 7th, 2021 at 14:43 UTC »

The band is scrambling like mad to learn the Indian national anthem.

gallico on August 7th, 2021 at 19:07 UTC »

Interesting side bit: the Indian javelin team is coached by Uwe Hohn who holds the "eternal" world record of over 104m before the regulation changed the specification of the javelin in a way that those distances are not possible anymore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe_Hohn