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2 months to go for Olympics, Neeraj Chopra faces a scare — after fatigue of back-to-back events in Doha and Bhubaneshwar | Sport-others News

Exactly two months before the Paris Olympics, India’s biggest medal hope Neeraj Chopra has pulled out of the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold event at Ostrava in the Czech Republic because of adductor muscle stiffness. The health scare comes towards the end of a hectic month where the Tokyo Olympics javelin gold medalist had participated in two competitions — Doha Diamond League and Bhubaneswar Federation Cup — that were just four days apart. Neeraj in a statement on social media said that he “felt something” in his adductor after a recent throwing session and wasn’t taking the risk of competing because of his past problems with the muscle. “…I am not injured but I don’t want to take any risk during the Olympic year so I had to take this decision. Once I feel it’s fully recovered, I will get back to competitions,” he said. Manisha Malhotra, the head of Sports Excellence and Scouting at JSW Sports, the firm that manages Chopra, mentioned “back-to-back competitions” as a reason for the pull out. “Neeraj has pulled …