The track and field competition at the Hangzhou Asian Games was marred by another controversy on Wednesday when officials failed to record a “good” first throw made by Olympic and world champion Neeraj Chopra.
The Indian eventually won the Asiad gold thanks to getting 88.88 metres on his fourth registered effort. But before that he was trailing his compatriot and rival Kishore Jena and there was a danger he might lose the gold because of the confusion. Chopra was second man to throw in the final. He launched his throw and it looked long, well over 85m, but his distance did not initially appear on the digital board and before the issue could be resolved the next athlete launched his throw.
It felt like a great throw to me, I’ll watch the video later, I don’t know how much it was, but I’m told that it was really good. “So I was a little disappointed because it was a good throw, and there was a good wind behind me as well.” Chopra said that there may have been a technical problem or they may have not finished measuring his first throw when the next athlete made his first throw. “They said they would let me have another first throw after that.
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