New Delhi: World Athletics on Thursday announced the ticket sales for the World Athletics Championship 2025, which will take place in September this year in Tokyo, Japan. The tickets for the global event will be open from Friday onwards.
Interestingly, the global governing body of track and field events, in its latest promotion for the tickets, featured India-Pakistan rivals Neeraj Chopra and Arshad Nadeem in a poster. In the upper side of the poster, Neeraj is placed on the left with a roar while Nadeem seems tranquil on the right.
The two athletes are placed below their respective graphics, holding the spears, apparently at the release point. In the middle of the four visuals, the ‘Tokyo 25’ is written in a calligraphic format. A tagline below notes ‘Every second, Sugoi.’ The term Sugoi is a Japanese word, which translates into English as amazing.
The X handle of World Athletics emphasised on the head-to-head rivalry between Neeraj and Arshad with the caption ‘Which two athletes do you want to see fight for gold in Tokyo?’
Head-to-heads we live for 🫨
Which two athletes do you want to see fight for gold in Tokyo?
Tickets for @WATokyo25 go on sale tomorrow! Sign up to get first pick of epic showdowns – like the men’s javelin final on day 6 🎟️
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— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) January 30, 2025
The Neeraj Chopra-Arshad Nadeem rivalry is the next big thing for sports fans to revere for across borders. This has come under the eyeballs after Neeraj trumped Arshad to win his maiden gold medal at the World Athletics Championship in Budapest, Hungary, in 2023.
A year later, Arshad was on the top of the podium at the Paris Olympics 2024 with a record-breaking monstrous throw of 92.97m. Neeraj finished second at the quadrennial showpiece with a 89.45m throw to claim the silver medal.
The 2025 World Athletics Championship will be add another layer to one of the most amicable rivalries in the sporting world.
The World Athletics Championships 2025 in Tokyo are set to feature a thrilling rivalry between Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra and Pakistani athlete Arshad Nadeem. Their head-to-head battle promises excitement after Chopra’s 2023 World Championship victory and Nadeem’s record-breaking Paris 2024 Olympic triumph. Other Sports Sports News: Latest Cricket News, Cricket Live Score, Sports Breaking News from Sports Today
