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Neeraj Chopra

Arindam Majumder New Delhi
In the middle of 2019, Neeraj Chopra’s chances of making it to the Olympics looked shaky after he suffered a career-threatening elbow inju­ry. Man­isha Malhotra, head of sports excellence and scouting at JSW Sports, promptly got down to working the phones — calling whoever could urgently help. In 24 hours, Chopra was with Din­shaw Pardiwala, one of India’s top orthopaedic surgeons, at the Kokilaben Dhiru­bh­ai Ambani Hospital in Mumbai.

The two-hour intensive surgery was followed by four months of rehabilitation at the Inspire Institute of Sports, the only privately funded high-performance training centre located at JSW’s Vijayanagar steel plant in