A video shared by famous Indian singer Asha Bhosle went viral on social media, but for the wrong reason. In her post on Twitter (now X), Bhosle congratulated sprinter Jyothi Yarraji of winning a gold medal in the Asian Games 2023. The post saw many fans taking to Twitter and congratulated Yarraji for the feat. But, the athlete hadn't actually won an Asiad Gold at the Hangzhou Games. The sprinter Yarraji had actually won a Gold medal at the Asian Athletics Championships on July 13, 2023.
Interestingly, Gautam Gambhir also put up a similar post.
The video of Jyothi that Asha Bhosle posted was from the 2023 Asian Athletics championship held in Bangkok in July 2023.
India have big medal hopes from Athletics in the 2023 Asian Games, particularly from Neeraj Chopra, who is the reigning Olympic champion in Javelin Throw.
India's Asian Games 2023 Squads For Athletics
Men's: Neeraj Chopra, Kishore Jena, Tajinder Toor, Sahib Singh, Sandeep Kumar, Vikash Singh, Sreeshankar, Jeswin Aldrin, Praveen Chitravel, Abdullah Aboobacker, Ajay Saroj, Jinson Johnson, Krishan Kumar, Md Afsal, Santhosh Kumar, Yashas P, Kartik Kumar, Gulveer Singh, Avinash Sable, Sarvesh Kushare, Jesse Sandesh, Tejaswin Shankar, Ram Baboo, Man Singh, BA Bopaiah, Nihal William, Rahul Baby, Md Anas, Md Ajmal, Arokia Rajiv, Amoj Jacob, Mijo Kurian, Rajesh Ramesh, Arul R, Amlan Borgohain.
Women's: Shaili Singh, Ancy Sojan, Ankita, Parul Chaudhary, Annu Rani, Kiran Baliyan, Manpreet Kaur, Priyanka, Manju Rani, Vithya Ramraj, Sinchal Ravi, Swapna Barman, Nandini Agasara, Harmilan Bains, Chanda, Diksha, Tanya Kumari, Rachna Kumari, Rubina Yadav, Pooja, Jyothi Yarraji, Pavithra V, Sheena N, Nithya Ramraj, Soniya Baishya, Florence Barla, Subha V, Aishwarya Mishra, Himanshi Malik, Jisna Mathews, Seema Punia, Priti Lamba, Prachi.