Flag-bearers Arshad Nadeem and Jehanara Nabi can be main the contingent in Paris.
Excellence is a superb line that separates athletes from turning their Olympic desires right into a actuality. Each fraction of a second sooner, each centimeter farther is a type of perfection crafted over years to culminate in a single second of athletic supremacy, which is what Olympians are made from.
Seven of Pakistan’s greatest athletes can be strolling out — or relatively, floating down the Seine— on the Paris 2024 Olympics. Seven is a small quantity for a contingent representing nearly 250 million folks, however our nationwide athletes should not be made the topic of misplaced criticism that ought to be directed at related establishments liable for athletic efficiency within the nation.
Pakistan’s sporting glory is a bygone period unknown to the contingent strolling out in Paris. However each dash, each shot, and each throw is an opportunity at regaining what has light into oblivion. Tonight, let’s give our athletes a standing ovation as they etch their identify within the historical past books.
Arshad Nadeem — Athletics
Males’s Javelin Throw, August 6, 8
Solely essentially the most extraordinary athletes on the earth can preserve changing one dream with the following, and the following, and the following. Arshad Nadeem would know what that’s like, after a historic direct qualification to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, and a monumental gold medal and video games file on the 2022 Commonwealth Video games, and a ground-breaking silver medal on the 2023 World Athletic Championships.
Faiqa Riaz
Faiqa Riaz will solely have 12 seconds to characterize Pakistan on the Olympics, however that’s what she desires. The Paris-bound sprinter can be chasing down the 100m nationwide file which she’s on observe for after unofficially clocking 11.70 earlier this yr.
Ghulam Mustafa Bashir — Capturing
Males’s 25m Speedy Fireplace Pistol, August 4