Hyderabad: Bollywood celebrities like Bhumi Pednekar, Milind Soman and Vatsal Seth are receiving flak on social media for congratulating Indian wrestler Priya Malik, assuming she had won gold at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics. In reality, Malik had bagged a gold medal at the World Cadet Wrestling Championship 2021 in Hungary.
Congratulating Priya, Milind wrote, "Thank you Priya Malik! #gold #TokyoOlympics #wrestling welcome to Mt Olympus." However, Soman apologised in a separate tweet saying he should have checked before tweeting.
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Thank you Priya Malik! #gold #TokoyoOlympics #wrestling welcome to Mt Olympus 👏👏👏👏🙂
— Milind Usha Soman (@milindrunning) July 25, 2021 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
">Thank you Priya Malik! #gold #TokoyoOlympics #wrestling welcome to Mt Olympus 👏👏👏👏🙂
— Milind Usha Soman (@milindrunning) July 25, 2021Thank you Priya Malik! #gold #TokoyoOlympics #wrestling welcome to Mt Olympus 👏👏👏👏🙂
— Milind Usha Soman (@milindrunning) July 25, 2021
In a separate tweet, the model-actor expressed: "Sorry, should have checked before my earlier tweet, but was too overcome with joy. Priya Malik won Gold at the World Wrestling Championships! Onwards and upwards."
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Sorry, should have checked before my earlier tweet, but was too overcome with joy 😄 Priya Malik won Gold at the World wrestling Championships ! Onwards and upwards 👏👏👏👏👏🙂
— Milind Usha Soman (@milindrunning) July 25, 2021 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
">Sorry, should have checked before my earlier tweet, but was too overcome with joy 😄 Priya Malik won Gold at the World wrestling Championships ! Onwards and upwards 👏👏👏👏👏🙂
— Milind Usha Soman (@milindrunning) July 25, 2021Sorry, should have checked before my earlier tweet, but was too overcome with joy 😄 Priya Malik won Gold at the World wrestling Championships ! Onwards and upwards 👏👏👏👏👏🙂
— Milind Usha Soman (@milindrunning) July 25, 2021
Meanwhile, Bhumi shared a picture of Priya from her victory moment and wrote on her Instagram story, "Baby gold gold gold gold gold #PriyaMalik #tokyoolympics #olympics2021" The actor, however, has now deleted her Instagram Story.
Vatsal Seth also shared the picture of Priya Malika and hailed her for her victory but for the wrong championship. He wrote, "Congratulations #priyamalik on #OlympicGames #Olympics." Realising his mistake, Vatsal corrected himself late and shared another post that read, "Sorry not Olympics … but we are still super proud of you"
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Congratulations #priyamalik on 🥇 🇮🇳#OlympicGames #Olympics pic.twitter.com/Yb0osLOaq2
— Vatsal Sheth (@shethvatsal) July 25, 2021 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
">Congratulations #priyamalik on 🥇 🇮🇳#OlympicGames #Olympics pic.twitter.com/Yb0osLOaq2
— Vatsal Sheth (@shethvatsal) July 25, 2021Congratulations #priyamalik on 🥇 🇮🇳#OlympicGames #Olympics pic.twitter.com/Yb0osLOaq2
— Vatsal Sheth (@shethvatsal) July 25, 2021
READ | Priya Malik wins gold at World Cadet Wrestling Championship in Hungary
Netizens are trolling the celebrities for gaffe and advised them to "Google little and find out in which world sporting event she won." A user wrote, "It's not mandatory to post congratulatory tweet without knowing about it."
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Sorry not Olympics … but we are still super proud of you 👏🏼 🥇🇮🇳 https://t.co/nUT9PN9YyJ
— Vatsal Sheth (@shethvatsal) July 25, 2021 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
">Sorry not Olympics … but we are still super proud of you 👏🏼 🥇🇮🇳 https://t.co/nUT9PN9YyJ
— Vatsal Sheth (@shethvatsal) July 25, 2021Sorry not Olympics … but we are still super proud of you 👏🏼 🥇🇮🇳 https://t.co/nUT9PN9YyJ
— Vatsal Sheth (@shethvatsal) July 25, 2021
Commenting on Milind's post, netizens trolled him for sharing incorrect information and requested him to delete the tweet. "Sir it's world wrestling championship and not Olympic... It is held in Hungary...fyi," wrote a user.
"Sir pls delete this. She won at World Championship at Hungry. Even I got excited initially," commented another user. Replying to this, Soman wrote: "I know now, still happy and I won't delete the tweet, sometimes its ok to make a mistake."
Meanwhile, celebs like, Neetu Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Sara Ali Khan, Sagrika Ghatge and Sanjay Kapoor are among many others who have congratulated Priya.
