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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Unidentified Woman in Indian Team's Marchpast at the Opening Ceremonyof 2012 London Olympics

The London Games organisers on Monday July 30,2012 apologised to the Indian contingent over the issue of an unidentified woman gatecrashing into the Indian Team's Marchpast at the Opening Ceremony on Friday July 27,2012.
The woman in red shirt and blue trouser, later identified as Madhura Nagendra, a post-graduate from Bangalore.
"She had no business to walk 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," Indian contingent's acting Chef-de-Mission Muralidharan Raja had said
LOCOG Chairman Lord Sebastian Coe had sought to cool down the frayed tempers among the Indians, saying that he would meet with the Indian delegation to discuss the matter.

"I was told about it. She sort of made it into the Opening Ceremony. She was a cast member who clearly got slightly overexcited. She shouldn't have been there," Coe said on Sunday July 29,2012.



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