RIO OC MAY CANCEL GOEL'S ACCREDITATION, MINISTER SAYS HE IS FOLLOWING RULES

Over-enthusiastic assistants pushing people out of the way of an approaching politician is commonplace enough in India to qualify as a cliche. But this same behaviour seems to have brought India's Sports Minister Vijay Goel to the brink of embarrassment at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The organisers have now threatened to cancel the minister's pass to visit the venues.