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Olympian Neeraj Chopra debunks false narrative created by right wing media and personalities

DFRAC Editor August 27, 2021 4 min read

Two days ago, a news clipping of Indian Olympic javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra’s interview started to go viral on social media. In an interview with Time of India, Chopra said, “ “I was searching for my javelin at the start of the final (in Olympics). I was not able to find it. Suddenly, I saw Arshad Nadeem was moving around with my javelin. Then I told him, ‘Bhai give this javelin to me, it is my javelin! I have to throw it’. He gave it back to me. That’s why you must have seen I took my first throw hurriedly”.

Arshad Nadeem is Pakistan’s Olympic javelin thrower. This interview was taken just a few days after Chopra won gold at the Olympics. This quote was then posted by various news media outlets and verified twitter accounts, some of whom are followed by PM Modi. The claim made by them was that Arshad Nadeem was probably tampering with Chopra’s javelin before his throw. These accounts also seemed to accuse Nadeem of engaging in a plan to tamper with India’s chances of getting a gold.

Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem was moving around with Neeraj Chopra's javelin during the finals, Olympic gold medalist reveals. This is what may have happened (@nirwamehta reports) https://t.co/LnHgy7LDu7

— OpIndia.com (@OpIndia_com) August 25, 2021

‘Bhai give this javelin to me’, when Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem did THIS to Neeraj Chopra before final#NeerajChopra #ArshadNadeemhttps://t.co/PA2E7FZi4P

— Zee News English (@ZeeNewsEnglish) August 25, 2021

Why would Aman ki Asha journos' favourite Nadeem do it? tampering? pic.twitter.com/KxqloYKFl6

— Vikas Pandey (Sankrityayan) (@MODIfiedVikas) August 25, 2021

खेल के मैदान में भी यह पाकिस्तानी अपनी आतंकवादी हरकतों से बाज़ नहीं आते !
इस पाकिस्तानी अरशद नदीम ने नीरज चोपड़ा का जैवलीन चुरा लिया ताकि नीरज चोपड़ा गोल्ड नहीं जीत पाए !लेकिन नीरज की अचानक नज़र पड़ी और उसने अरशद से जैवेलिन वापस ले लिया !नीरज फिर भी अरशद की तारीफ़ करता रहा! pic.twitter.com/70jOX06EPX

— Ashoke Pandit (@ashokepandit) August 25, 2021

Looks like Arshad Nadeem did try hard to fulfil @ShayanAcharya’s dream of “doing a Javed Miandad” (defeating Neeraj Chopra).

While Shayan was dreaming of Nadeem and Neeraj Chopra together on the podium, Nadeem was busy hiding Neeraj’s javelin.

Pakistan 🤝 The Hindu pic.twitter.com/TOOEwtkR2S

— वरदा मराठे (@Varada_M) August 25, 2021

Why did Arshad Nadeem take away Neeraj Chopra's javelin during the Olympics finals just before his throw? pic.twitter.com/qt27hitFV9

— Arun Pudur (@arunpudur) August 25, 2021
Tweets and news reports by various right wing social media outlets

This video will go down in history as evidence of Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem stealing the javelin of Neeraj Chopra at #Tokyo2020.
Neeraj's first throw could have been better if this shameful incident didn't happen.
Arshad is lucky that @WeAreTeamIndia didn't lodge a complaint. pic.twitter.com/VyQ1ncERyw

— Soumyadipta (@Soumyadipta) August 25, 2021

Pakistani javelin thrower #ArshadNadeem, who finished fifth in Tokyo, did THIS to Neeraj Chopra's javelin in the final contesthttps://t.co/4yMEBf2djO

— Swarajya (@SwarajyaMag) August 25, 2021

Hopefully, when Bollywood will make biopic on Neeraj Chopra, they will show this detail too. pic.twitter.com/s2pD0LPH4V

— Anshul Saxena (@AskAnshul) August 25, 2021

The tweets quickly took on a more xenophobic nature onl because Nadeem is from Pakistan and both India and Pakistan have histrocally had strained ties.

This incident was quickly reported by several right wing news media outlets such as Swarajya Magazine , Zee News and OpIndia. Several people with verified accounts also amplified this such as Ashoke Pandit, Soumyadipta, Anshul Saxena, Varada Marathe, Arun Pudur and Vikas Pandey.

Neeraj Chopra calls out the propaganda:

Owing to the massive amounts of tags and comments on Neeraj Chopra’s personal accounts, Chopra eventually had to post a video clarifying his statement and to express his disappointment about how the quote was twisted to show Arshan Nadeem as some sort of a villain.

मेरी आप सभी से विनती है की मेरे comments को अपने गंदे एजेंडा को आगे बढ़ाने का माध्यम न बनाए। Sports हम सबको एकजूट होकर साथ रहना सिखाता हैं और कमेंट करने से पहले खेल के रूल्स जानना जरूरी होता है 🙏🏽 pic.twitter.com/RLv96FZTd2

— Neeraj Chopra (@Neeraj_chopra1) August 26, 2021
Neeraj Chopra posts a clarification

“We can use our personal javelin during the competition. However, every thrower can also use the javelin and that is the rule. There is nothing wrong with it and he (Nadeem) was preparing with my javelin. I asked for the javelin for my throw and it’s not a big deal. I am very sad that this is being blown out of proportion. I request everyone to not do this. Sports teaches us to be united and all of us javelin throwers are very friendly and cordial with each other. Please don’t say anything which hurts us,” Chopra said in the video.

He further calls out the unnecessary propaganda spread by news media and individuals regarding this incident therefore putting an end to a false narrative created by right wing media. Therefore, this claim is misleading and false.

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Digital Forensics, Research and Analytics Centre (DFRAC) is a non-partisan and independent media organisation which focuses on fact-checking and identifying hate speech. With the popularisation of the internet came the challenge of information overload and often times, our feeds are overpopulated with conflicting, incendiary and false information which is increasingly becoming difficult to ignore and not believe in

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