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Shamed! Sports Minister Vijay Goel's 'cronies' embarrass India at Rio

Updated on: 12 August,2016 04:16 PM IST  | 
mid-day online correspondent |

Indians take to Twitter to blast Sports Minister Vijay Goel after news emerged that his 'pushy and rude' entourage had misbehaved with the Olympic 2016 organisers and flouted rules

Shamed! Sports Minister Vijay Goel's 'cronies' embarrass India at Rio

Shamed! Sports Minister Vijay Goel's entourage embarrasses India at Rio

Already disappointed with the country's performance till now at Rio Olympics, sports Minister Vijay Goel's entourage has given Indians more reasons to be upset with the showing at the 2016 Games. The behaviour of the entourage the minister is travelling with has left the organisers of the prestigious event miffed.


While Goel may be there to cheer the Indian contingent on along with monitoring their requirements at the Games Village, surely his 'pushy and rude' team is leaving a lot to be desired.


Vijay Goel with boxer Manoj KumarMinister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports Vijay Goel greets Manoj Kumar (64 kg category) after he defeated Petrauskas E. of Lithuania, at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Wednesday. Boxing Coach Shri G.S. Sandhu can be seen in the background. Pic/PTI


According to media reports, the Rio Olympic 2016 organisers have threatened to cancel the minister's accreditation if the 'unaccredited people' accompanying him do not end their "aggressive and rude" behaviour.

"We have had multiple reports of your Minister for Sports trying to enter accredited areas at venues with unaccredited individuals. When the staff try to explain that this is not allowed, they report that the people with the Minister have become aggressive and rude and sometimes push past our staff," Sarah Peterson, who is Continental Manager for Rio 2016 Organising Committee, said in a letter to Indian Chef-de-Mission Rakesh Gupta.

"As you can understand, this type of behaviour is not acceptable. Despite previous warnings, it would seem that even today (August 11) the same incident occurred at the Rio Olympic Arena(Gymnastics venue) and Carioca Arena 3," she added.

Peterson said the Minister's accreditation could be cancelled because of this.

"Should our protocol team be made aware of further examples of this type of behaviour, the accreditation of your Minister for Sports will be cancelled and his privileges at the Olympic Games withdrawn. We trust you will pass on this message urgently," she said.

The reports of the minister's team bringing disrepute to India left Twitterati fuming. Even celebrities like Television producer-director and quiz show host Siddhartha Basu and former mid-day editor and sports columnist Ayaz Memon spoke up against the minister.

HERE ARE SOME OF THE TWEETS:

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