Pakistan Welcomes Its Olympic Star

Thousands of Pakistani fans came to welcome Olympic winner Arshad Nadeem early on August 11 as he was arriving from Paris at the airport in Lahore, the capital of his native Punjab Province. Provincial authorities had prepared a double-decker bus from which the athlete greeted the cheering crowd. Nadeem was the best javelin thrower at the Paris games. His Olympic record -- 92.97 meters -- also meant the first Olympic gold for Pakistan since 1984.