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Bollywood Or Cricket? It's Olympics for God's Sake...

Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has done it again. They have again shown that there is no one better when it comes to ignoring the feats achieved by the Olympians of the country and sending a clear message to all the participating athletes that no matter how many medals you win at the Rio Olympics, you will always be an unknown entity in India.

This applaudable deed was achieved when IOA announced Bollywood Superstar Salman Khan as the Goodwill Ambassador for Indian Contingent for Rio Olympics.  This is the power of Bollywood that the top bosses of IOA were unable to differentiate between reality and fiction. I am sure that they would have thought of Salman Khan as a Olympic standard Wrestler after watching the teaser of his upcoming movie Sultan. If that is the criteria than I hope that our Hockey team will be coached by Shah Rukh Khan and Farhan Akhtar will represent India in 100 meters and 200 meters sprints at the Olympics.

By ignoring the stalwarts of the Olympic sports like Milkha Singh, PT Usha, Leander Paes, Dhanraj Pilley and Bhaichung Bhutia, IOA has once again proved how willing it is to improve the standards of Olympic sports in India and how much it cares about the player morale.

The entire nation would like to ask IOA about the credentials of Salman Khan for being the Goodwill Ambassador apart from those given by his father that he is an excellent bicycle rider because he rides his bicycle to the sets of his movies and a great swimmer because he may often be going for a swim in the nearest pool of a five star hotel. Just because his movie Sultan, in which he plays a wrestler is up for release and the producers are Yash Raj Productions, the biggest production house in India with lots of money, Olympics are being used as a platform to promote the movie on a global scale.

Salman Khan is a fine actor, loved by millions but ask him how would he feel if after completion of the shooting of the movie, the producers decide that they are going to use Sushil Kumar as the face of the film's promotion and use Leander Paes' face on the posters of the film. Would it still be a Salman Khan blockbuster?

I am not even in the favor of Sachin Tendulkar being appointed as Goodwill Ambassador for Olympics because he played a sport which was never a part of Olympics and will not be a part of it in near future. How would he have felt, if  instead of chanting Sachiiiiin Sachin, fans start chanting Milkha Milkha, when he was batting in the World Cup?

Sachin and Salman get enough publicity whenever a movie is released or a cricket match is on. Olympics is a platform of all other athletes to showcase their skills and make a name of themselves and for public to meet their champions of past and present and IOA has robbed them of this chance.

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