London Olympics abuzz as mystery woman joins Indian team at opening ceremony

LONDON — A mysterious woman in red is responsible for a worldwide incident for the London Olympics.

Indian officials are mystified — and miffed — after a mystery young woman was able to march with all the country’s athletes Xbox 360 Controllers and officials over the opening ceremony Friday night.

Games organizers on Sunday downplayed security concerns around the unscripted moment, saying the interloper would have been a ceremony cast member coupled with been screened before entering the Olympic Park.

Images from Friday’s ceremony showed a woman in turquoise jeans and a red jacket marching alongside Indian flag bearer Sushil video game accessories Kumar at the head of the delegation of 40 athletes in bright yellow and navy blue.

“We are totally dazed,” Indian press atttache Harpal Singh Bedi said. “How do somebody without any accreditation walk past?”

Indian officials said they'd no clue who over was. Indian media identified her as Madhura Nagendra, a graduate student from your southern capital of scotland- Bangalore who were living in London.

Her father, K. Nagendra, was quoted from the Press Xbox 360 Accessories Trust of India news organization as nevertheless his daughter ended up being chosen to bop in director Danny Boyle’s ceremony, and speculated that she has been asked by organizers to escort India’s team into the stadium.

“This may have hurt we’s feelings. I feel very sorry for the,” he was quoted as saying.

The mystery woman case dominated Indian media’s coverage in the opening in the games.

“Who’s That Girl?” asked the leading page in the Hindustan Times.

“Leaky London: Unaccounted presence in march Xbox 360 Hard Drive past,” said a headline inside Points in the India. The newspaper said the mystery woman had “brazenly gatecrashed the party, raising security concerns and adding to the anger over India’s blink-and-miss appearance on global TV screens.”

Bedi said India’s acting chef de mission, P.K.M. Raja, had sent games organizers the official letter of complaint.

“I think this is definitely a security lapse,” Bedi said.

But London organizing chief Sebastian Coe insisted the lady had not posed a menace to the ceremony. He told reporters she was “a cast member who clearly got slightly over-excited.”

Some 10,000 volunteers performed alongside professional musicians, actors and dancers in Boyle’s spectacular ceremony.

Coe stressed the woman had been screened to get into Olympic Stadium so there was no security breach.

“Don’t back off while using the idea that she walked in journey street,” Coe said, adding that games officials “may have our very own discussions” concerning the incident.

There seemed to be perhaps a little Indian satisfaction in great britan’s perceived lapse, which may come as India is suffering a Olympic embarrassment. An Indian court has barred Indian Olympic Association chief Suresh Kalmadi from attending the London opening ceremony, citing the “national interest.”

Kalmadi is out with friends on bail after working nine months in jail awaiting trial on corruption charges related this years Commonwealth Games.

India also was stung by British media criticism of the chaotic preparations for anyone 2010 games in New Delhi, that had been marred by construction delays and also a budget that ballooned from $412 million to $15 billion.

Bedi said the opening ceremony intrusion did not reflect poorly on India.

“We have been too big a country to get embarrassed because of it,” he said. “It should be an embarrassment for that hosts, not for India.”