{"id":333118,"date":"2021-07-24T05:22:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T10:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=333118"},"modified":"2021-08-05T08:17:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T13:47:04","slug":"fans-criticises-broadcaster-for-showing-anurag-thakur-in-split-screen-during-indias-olympics-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/fans-criticises-broadcaster-for-showing-anurag-thakur-in-split-screen-during-indias-olympics-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans criticises broadcaster for showing Anurag Thakur in split-screen during India\u2019s Olympics march"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-333120\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-45-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"705\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-45-1.png 705w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-45-1-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-45-1-696x331.png 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The grand opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics was held at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on Friday. The fans were disappointed as the official broadcaster Sony Sports Network, presented a split-screen that showed Indian athlete on one side and Union Minister Anurag Thakur cheering for the Indian contingent on the other side of the screen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During India\u2019s march at the parade of Nations at the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony, the host broadcasters showed Sports Minister Anurag Thakur in half of the screen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The upset fan tweeted &#8211; \u201cWhat was the need of showing Anurag Thakur here, and reducing screen size of Indian athlete!\u201d. Another admirer tweet said \u201csplit \u2013screen of Anurag Thakur and Indian athletes at Olympics is not done\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grand opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics was held at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on Friday. The fans were disappointed as the official broadcaster Sony Sports Network, presented a split-screen that showed Indian athlete on one side and Union Minister Anurag Thakur cheering for the Indian contingent on the other side of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":333120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[2653],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333121,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333118\/revisions\/333121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/333120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}