{"id":99117,"date":"2021-07-26T14:31:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T09:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=99117"},"modified":"2021-07-26T14:38:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T09:08:40","slug":"surya-namaskar-at-tokyo-olympics-no-2015-video-from-mongolia-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/surya-namaskar-at-tokyo-olympics-no-2015-video-from-mongolia-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"Surya Namaskar at Tokyo Olympics? No, 2015 video from Mongolia viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 was flagged off on July 23 after a year&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Surya Namaskar is being recited in Tokyo Olympic. A proud moment. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hAHMfu5vhg\">pic.twitter.com\/hAHMfu5vhg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Satya Sharma (@SatyaSh05) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SatyaSh05\/status\/1419137339931037697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 25, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Facebook page fan page of The Art of Living in M<span class=\"d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb mdeji52x jagab5yi g1cxx5fr knj5qynh m9osqain hzawbc8m\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh jagab5yi g1cxx5fr knj5qynh m9osqain\"><span class=\"tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41\">acedonia <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/zg3yQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared<\/a> this video.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-99129 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/07\/2021-07-26-12_01_51-2-The-Art-of-Living-\u2013-Posts-_-Facebook-\u2014-Mozilla-Firefox.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"702\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/07\/2021-07-26-12_01_51-2-The-Art-of-Living-\u2013-Posts-_-Facebook-\u2014-Mozilla-Firefox.jpg 702w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/07\/2021-07-26-12_01_51-2-The-Art-of-Living-\u2013-Posts-_-Facebook-\u2014-Mozilla-Firefox-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alt News has received multiple verification requests for the video on our WhatsApp helpline (76000 11160) and our mobile application (<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.altnews&amp;hl=en_IN&amp;gl=US\">Android<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/tt\/app\/alt-news\/id1489307805?uo=2\">iOS<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-99132 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-26-at-9.02.50-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"674\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-26-at-9.02.50-AM.png 674w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-26-at-9.02.50-AM-300x153.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Video from 2015<\/h4>\n<p>The video is from a 2015 yoga event organised by &#8216;Art of Living&#8217; in Mongolia. It was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In fact, the video is also uploaded on his YouTube channel. The viral portion begins from the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YGgQ7ng_pCQ?t=331\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5:30<\/a> mark.<\/p>\n<iframe style=\"width:100%; height:auto; aspect-ratio:16\/9;\" title=\"PM Modi at the Community Reception &amp; Yoga Event organised by &amp;apos;Art of Living&amp;apos;  in Mongolia\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YGgQ7ng_pCQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>As per the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mea.gov.in\/bilateral-documents.htm?dtl\/25253\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ministry of External Affairs<\/a>, Mongolian PM Chimediin Saikhanbileg invited PM Modi for a State visit from May 16 to 18 in 2015. The two countries discussed partnership on various fronts including political, military, health and culture.<\/p>\n<p>The Art of Living also tweeted about this event in 2015.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Mongolia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Mongolia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ArtOfLiving?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ArtOfLiving<\/a> welcomes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PMOIndia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PMOIndia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/narendramodi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@narendramodi<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elbegdorj?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@elbegdorj<\/a> for &#8216;United in Spirit&#8217; event. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/3qoitOROiS\">pic.twitter.com\/3qoitOROiS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Art of Living (@ArtofLiving) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArtofLiving\/status\/599889494909718529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To conclude, a 2015 video of Surya Namaskar at a yoga event in Mongolia has been circulating on social media with the false claim that it is from the ongoing Olympics in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 was flagged off on July 23 after a year&#8217;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. Surya Namaskar is being recited in Tokyo Olympic. A proud moment. pic.twitter.com\/hAHMfu5vhg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":99151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[693],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[682],"class_list":["post-99117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-featured","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/07\/FI-4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99117"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99185,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99117\/revisions\/99185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99117"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=99117"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=99117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}