Neeraj Chopra reveals secret to his success

New Delhi - "I think my struggling time has become my motivation now," he says

Born in Khandra in Panipat, Haryana, to a farmer's family, Asian javelin throw champion and the new poster boy of Indian athletics, Neeraj Chopra, says his struggle to give the best to his family as a young boy and achieve his goals motivated him to reach where he had.
Chopra, who not only got Gold in javelin throw at Commonwealth Games but also at Asiad 2018 -- where he threw a distance of 88.06 m in the Men's event and set a new Indian national record, bettering his own previous one.
However, little did he know his passion for this game when he was 11. Weighing 80 kg, his introduction to the game was incidental when he visited the Panipat Stadium in his bid to lose weight. He quickly took a liking for the sport and the rest, as they say, is history.
Talking about his past, Chopra said: "If I were going thorough the same struggle today, I would have quit. I might have opted for other fields. That was the time when I was going through strenuous training practices and was focussing a lot to maintain myself as a sportsperson. Even I had to keep my family happy and live up to their expectations so all these factors motivated me and still motivates me."
"I think my struggling time has become my motivation now," he added.
So what are his next goals?
"Post my win at Commonwealth Games and Asian Games, I would like to give the same performance in Olympics (2020)and World Championship in 2019 and get Gold for India again," he said.
"Now people have started acknowledging athletes and I feel that more such performances will increase their importance."