Hima Das might have created history by claiming first gold for an Indian athlete in world championships. However The `Athletes Federation of India’ (AFI) is ready to play spoil sport to the celebrations. Soon after Hima won the gold, the AFI has tweeted “#HimaDas speaking to media after her SF win at #iaaftampere2018 @iaaforg Not so fluent in English but she gave her best there too. So proud of u #HimaDas Keep rocking & yeah,try ur best in final!”. The AFI has of course attracted the ire of Indian fans for pin pointing fact that Hima can’t speak in fluent English. Many pointed that `we need athletes but not English speakers’. Sensing the trouble the AFI has immediately issued an apology- ` “We apologise to the country if our tweet has hurt the sentiments. We only wanted to show that Hima is fearless whether on the track or outside. Despite being from a small village, she spoke freely with the foreign media. We apologise again to those who were offended”. However this shows our attitude towards people that are not fluent in their English despite being highly talented.
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