British Journalist Piers Morgan Mocks India's Celebration Of Rio Medallists, Twitter Takes Him Down In No Time
The medals won by PV Sindhu and Sakshi Malik have been the topic of much celebration across India ever since the two athletes made Olympic history. Where purists are looking at the positives from India's performance, critics aren't satisfied with India's show.
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However, there are some who have a problem with India's way of celebrating the success of its Olympic athletes. Like British journalist Piers Morgan, who just couldn't digest the fact that India can take so much pride in its athletes by the way the state agencies and the country as a whole is giving.
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Morgan, known to be a loudmouth and have an strong opinion on sports and other disciplines, tweeted this as a response to a tweet which was this...
@piersmorgan @WalesOnline this is the welcome our athletes got for 1 silver and 1 bronze here in India! pic.twitter.com/J548EbxeCZ
¡ª Tariq Vaidya (@tariqvaidya) August 24, 2016
Obviously, amused by the rapturous welcome India's medal winners Sakshi Malik and PV Sindhu got on their return to India, Morgan responded by saying this...
Country with 1.2 billion people wildly celebrates 2 losing medals. How embarrassing is that? https://t.co/FYSBM7ErAf
¡ª Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 24, 2016
And then, all hell broke lose and he was taken down by people online.
Piers morgan getting acquainted with Indian nationalist twitter in 3... 2... https://t.co/rI2ptIZhlv
¡ª Sruthijith (@sruthijith) August 24, 2016
@AdvancedMaushi @piersmorgan He is the KRK of Twitter, Kejriwal of Politics, Arsenal of EPL & Rakhi Sawant of bollywood all combined into 1
¡ª ManUtd 4 ever (@ujjwalingolikar) August 24, 2016
About as embarrassing as being the citizen of a country that explicitly adds "Great" to its name. https://t.co/SwWcdwNS5c
¡ª Abhishek Madan (@abhishekmadan) August 24, 2016
If you are ever confused about picking a side, check which side Piers Morgan is on and support the opposite.
¡ª Badminton enthusiast (@lolkthen_) August 24, 2016
Piers Morgan has a history of chutiyagiri.
¡ª Shan (@klpe) August 24, 2016
In General It's "Born With The Silver Spoon"
¡ª Sir Rohit Sharma (@ImRo450) August 24, 2016
Bt fr Piers Morgan it's "Born With the Golden Spoon" Caus Silver & Bronze Doesn't exist fr him?
The result was that Morgan, who is not known to give up, stuck to his guns and kept on telling people that India mustn't be overtly happy about its performance in Rio.
India's the fastest growing economy on the planet. Stop whining & get training. https://t.co/AZDcb0XOWD
¡ª Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 24, 2016
1,200,000,000 people and not a single Gold medal at the Olympics?
¡ª Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 24, 2016
Come on India, this is shameful.
Put the bunting away & get training.
But we doubt he'll get too many supporters on this...! What do you think?
