Tag: Parisolymics2024
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How did a small-town guy make it to the Paris Olympics? Credit goes to Nadeem himself
On a balmy evening in August 2022 at Birmingham’s Alexander Stadium, the largest athletics grounds in the United Kingdom, a packed crowd was following the drama unfolding in the men’s javelin competition. Arshad Nadeem, the Pakistani athlete, was preparing for his fifth and penultimate throw. Moments earlier, Grenada’s Anderson Peters, a two-time world champion, had…