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From budding bowler to javelin gold-Arshad story
The Morning Standard
|August 10, 2024
OORDINATOR for World Athletics was looking for someone to translate Arshad Nadeem's bit at the press conference.
He speaks Hindi or Urdu but does not know English, which is understandable. What seemed more bewildering is that the Pakistan contingent did not have a media manager at that time. Finally, a Pakistan journalist doubled up as a translator. If not for javelin, Arshad could have become a pacer. As a child, he had dreamed of becoming a cricketer. Destiny had something else in store for him. No wonder his run-up reminds you of a pacer.
"That's because I was a fast bowler and am comfortable with the run-up and will not want to change," he said. On Thursday, he became Pakistan's first individual Olympic gold-medallist across disciplines.
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