In the middle of 2019, Neeraj Chopra’s chances of making it to the Olympics looked shaky after he suffered a career-threatening elbow injury. Manisha Malhotra, head of sports excellence and scouting at JSW Sports, promptly got down to working the phones — calling whoever could urgently help. In 24 hours, Chopra was with Dinshaw Pardiwala, one of India’s top orthopaedic surgeons, at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in Mumbai.
The two-hour intensive surgery was followed by four months of rehabilitation at the Inspire Institute of Sports, the only privately funded high-performance training centre located at JSW’s Vijayanagar steel plant in