Is Neeraj’s gold India’s greatest triumph across sports?

While Anju says yes, 1980 Moscow Olympics skipper Baskaran feels it is unfair to compare

Anju Bobby George believes Neeraj Chopra’s Olympic gold is the country’s greatest triumph across sports. “This is the best triumph across all sports because athletics is the centrepiece event. We can compare athletics medals with something like World Cup football medals, otherwise there is no comparison between an athletics medal and any other medal,” said the 2003 World championships long jump bronze medallist in a chat with The Hindu on Sunday. “We are competing with multiple opponents, from more than 200 countries. It’s a common sport, anybody can compete in this. So, the competition will be that much higher.”