London: London Olympic Games organisers on Sunday said that they were "looking into" the issue of an unidentified woman's presence in the Indian contingent during the march past at the Opening Ceremony, a development which has not only left the Indians angry but has generated a big controversy back home.
The Indian contingent has submitted a letter to the organisers expressing their resentment over the incident even as media reports claimed to have identified the "mystery" woman who hogged the limelight at the ceremony.
LOGOC Chairman Sir Sebastian Coe said he is aware of the incident and the organisers will look into the case.
"I was told about it. She sort of made it into the Opening Ceremony. There is a very important point to take into consideration here. I don't minimize the fact that she got in Opening Ceremony. We will have our own discussion about that," Coe said at a press conference here....
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08:45 PM, Jul 29, 2012
London: The girl who crashed team India's Opening Ceremony at the London Olympics has been identified. She's reportedly Madhura Honey, a postgraduate student, hailing from Bangalore, according to the reports in Deccan Chronicle. Acting Chef de Mission of the Indian contingent P.K. Muralidharan Raja is understandably agitated that a person who was not part of the delegation was allowed to accompany the team and hog the limelight in the process....
01:47 PM, Jul 29, 2012
London: The Indian contingent at the Olympics has got itself drawn into a controversy after a mysterious woman was found to be marching along with them during the Opening ceremony on Saturday. The woman, whose identity isn't known, was seen marching ahead of the Indian contingent, just behind flag-bearer Sushil Kumar. CNN-IBN has learnt that the woman, seen wearing a red t-shirt and light blue jeans, was neither a flower...
05:18 PM, Jul 28, 2012
Mumbai: The mystery woman who had arranged for cricketers Rahul Sharma and Wayne Parnell to be present during the rave party at Juhus Oakwood Premier hotel that was raided on Sunday, has been identified by cops. Ninety one people were detained during the police operation and the establishments director arrested. The woman, Namrata Kumar, who is a public relations representative, had got in touch with Parnell through one of his...
12:16 PM, May 25, 2012
Mumbai: After the body of a 30-year-old man was recovered from the rocks of the Manori beach on Sunday, Gorai cops have learnt that the victim was called to the spot by a woman on Saturday. Cops are now trying to determine the identity of this mystery woman. The victim has been identified as Ramesh Dedhia, a resident of Malwani in Malad (West), where he stayed with his second wife....
12:41 PM, May 08, 2012
New York: A U.S. magazine has identified the mystery woman seen kissing singer Elvis Presley in a backstage theater stairwell in an iconic 1956 photograph. Barbara Gray, now 75 and living in Charleston, S.C., told Vanity Fair magazine that she didn't reveal her identity for the money or fame. "I just wanted to get my name on the damn picture," she said. Gray admitted that she become fed up with...
01:54 PM, Aug 09, 2011
