{"id":117808,"date":"2026-08-20T08:59:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T08:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/117808\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T08:59:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T08:59:46","slug":"neeraj-pathirage-showdown-yet-again-in-lausanne-diamond-league-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/117808\/","title":{"rendered":"Neeraj-Pathirage showdown yet again in Lausanne Diamond League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chopra, on the other hand, is on a comeback trail after recovering from a lower back injury that has troubled him since September last year.<\/p>\n<p>The injury delayed his return until the Diamond League in Doha. He was not 100 per cent fit in Glasgow but was able to win a silver with a season&#8217;s best throw of 85.83m.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t say my fitness is there like before. But I&#8217;m getting there slowly,&#8221; the 28-year-old Chopra had said at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n<p>After the Commonwealth Games, Chopra has gone back to his base in Biel, Switzerland, where he is continuing his rehabilitation-cum-training with childhood coach Jaiveer Chaudhary and physio Ishan Marwah.<\/p>\n<p>He would be hoping to make further improvement in the three weeks after Glasgow CWG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chopra, on the other hand, is on a comeback trail after recovering from a lower back injury that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[54430,94,10667,11586,54540],"class_list":["post-117808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lausanne","tag-commonwealth-games","tag-lausanne","tag-lausanne-diamond-league","tag-neeraj-chopra","tag-rumesh-pathirage"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117127018318651508","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}