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| India's Olympic camp asks how impostor could take limelight | India's Olympic camp asks how impostor could take limelight |
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| An investigation is under way in the Indian Olympic camp after an impostor slipped into the opening ceremony and hogged the limelight from the real athletes. | An investigation is under way in the Indian Olympic camp after an impostor slipped into the opening ceremony and hogged the limelight from the real athletes. |
| The unidentified young woman, wearing turquoise trousers and a red hoodie, led out the team in the stadium despite having nothing to do with the squad, who were all wearing yellow turbans or saris. | The unidentified young woman, wearing turquoise trousers and a red hoodie, led out the team in the stadium despite having nothing to do with the squad, who were all wearing yellow turbans or saris. |
| India's chef de mission, PK Muralidharan Raja, has demanded an explanation from organisers. "She had no business to walk in with the Indian contingent and we are taking up the issue with the organisers. | India's chef de mission, PK Muralidharan Raja, has demanded an explanation from organisers. "She had no business to walk in with the Indian contingent and we are taking up the issue with the organisers. |
| "We don't know who she is and why she was allowed to walk in. It is a shame that she was with the athletes in the march past," Raja told Indian media | "We don't know who she is and why she was allowed to walk in. It is a shame that she was with the athletes in the march past," Raja told Indian media |
| "We were initially told that she would accompany the contingent till the track but she went on to take the entire lap. There was another man also but he stayed back and did not enter the stadium," Raja said. | "We were initially told that she would accompany the contingent till the track but she went on to take the entire lap. There was another man also but he stayed back and did not enter the stadium," Raja said. |
| "The Indian contingent was shown for hardly 10 seconds in the TV coverage and the entire focus sadly was on this lady, instead of the athletes." | "The Indian contingent was shown for hardly 10 seconds in the TV coverage and the entire focus sadly was on this lady, instead of the athletes." |
| He added: "We have taken strong exception to this. The march past is for the athletes and officials attached to the contingent. We are totally taken by surprise how a person could just intrude into the track." | He added: "We have taken strong exception to this. The march past is for the athletes and officials attached to the contingent. We are totally taken by surprise how a person could just intrude into the track." |
| Eighty-one Indian athletes will compete in London, the country's biggest ever contingent. Hopes are high that the squad will put an end to what the Financial Times this week uncharitably referred to as India's "uniquely inept record". The nation of 1.2 billion people has won 20 medals in 100 years of Olympic participation. | Eighty-one Indian athletes will compete in London, the country's biggest ever contingent. Hopes are high that the squad will put an end to what the Financial Times this week uncharitably referred to as India's "uniquely inept record". The nation of 1.2 billion people has won 20 medals in 100 years of Olympic participation. |
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