When Uttar Pradesh’s Shivpal Singh took the flight to the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, he was then the best Indian javelin thrower behind Olympic and world champion Neeraj Chopra.
But the level of competition in India after Chopra’s success in Japan has been such that Shivpal could not even find a spot in the Indian squad in the just concluded Hangzhou Asian Games, where Chopra went on to win the gold and Kishor Kumar Jena claimed the silver.
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