India, Aug. 13 -- Pakistan went to the Paris Olympics with a mere contingent of seven athletes and no one even expected that the South Asian nation would return home with a gold medal, thanks to the stellar performance by javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem.

Nadeem enthused the nation struggling with inflation and price rise, at least momentarily, by rewriting the sporting history of a country which waited for 32 years to finally reach the podium of the grand sporting event.

The last time Pakistan won a medal in the Olympics was in 1992 when the once glorious hockey team, which did not even qualify this year, had won bronze.

It was the same hockey team that had brought a gold medal for their country 40 years ago in 1984.

The wait was indeed...