How escaping bullying led to the birth of an Olympic champion

Exactly a decade ago, a chance encounter between an obese teenager trying to lose kilos and a young javelin thrower in the same Haryana town led to a tectonic event of similar proportions in the history of Indian athletics on Saturday: a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics, the first ever athletic gold in Olympics and the first medal in athletics in post-independent India. That obese boy was Neeraj Chopra.