Kimmy Yam is a reporter for NBC Asian America.
After Pakistani javelin athlete Arshad Nadeem hurtled his way into the Olympic history books, his country threw him welcome celebrations fit for a king. Arshad Nadeem, 27, took the top spot in javelin last week in the Paris Games, becoming the first Pakistani to win an individual gold medal in the country’s history. Thousands of supporters showed up at the airport for the return of the athlete, who once trained with javelins he fashioned out of eucalyptus branches.
“Initially, we improvised homemade javelins by using long eucalyptus branches with iron tips on their ends. The fields in our village served as our training ground,” he told the outlet. “We developed our own weight training apparatus by using iron rods, canisters of oil and concrete.” Ahead of the Olympics, Nadeem revealed he had been training with the same old, broken javelin for years, and successfully appealed to the Pakistani government for help securing new equipment.
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