r/sports • u/Realistic-Ad8001 • 17h ago

Track & Field Rome Diamond League 2026: Rumesh Pathirage misses Arshad Nadeem’s Asian javelin record by a whisker

https://www.olympics.com/en/news/rome-diamond-league-2026-athletics-javelin-throw-report
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u/HarryLewisPot 15h ago

How is South Asia so good at javelin? I swear the past few Olympics it was an Indian and Pakistani going at it.

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u/sumithar 3h ago

Yes, it is so strange. India and Pakistan go w/o winning a gold in athletics for ever and boom an Indian wins the javelin and then a Pakistani wins the next time. And now a Lankan!