DeTect: No Surya Namaskar performed at Olympics

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26 Jul 2021, 7:51 pm

Chennai

The Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 was flagged off on July 23 after a year’s delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Shortly after, several social media users posted a video of people performing the Surya Namaskar and claimed the event was held at the Olympics. Alt News ran a check and found that the video is from a 2015 yoga event organised by ‘Art of Living’ in Mongolia. It was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

First published on www.altnews.in

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