India Angered Over Olympics Ceremony Mystery Woman

India was furious over a mystery woman wearing red and blue who was walking alongside the country’s Olympic contingent during the opening ceremony.

“She had no business being there. It was a clear case of intrusion,” Indian organizer, P.K. M. Raja told the Times of India. “We are taking up the issue with the organizers. We don’t know who she is and why she was allowed to walk in.”

Sebastian Coe, the London Olympic Games chairman, told Sky News later that she was a volunteer who was part of the cast of the show and was “overexcited” and walked in the ceremony.

“She shouldn’t have been on the parade and we will look into that … the next time we have an opening ceremony,” he said. 

“We were totally taken by surprise how a person could just intrude into the track,” Raja said. “We will ask for an apology. She embarrassed us in front of the world.”

He was also furious that the Indian athletes did not receive enough television time when they walked during the ceremony.

“The Indian contingent was shown for hardly 10 seconds in the television coverage and the entire focus sadly was on this lady, instead of the athletes,” he told Sky.

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