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[caption id="attachment_19596" align="alignnone" width="580"] Indian Hockey team to boycott Rio opening ceremony. Twitter@sreejesh[/caption] Internet Desk: Faultier situation continues with Indian hockey team as they announced to boycott the opening ceremony of Rio 2016. This time the head coach wrote a mail to Chef de Mission complaining of lacking of proper kit for the team. Situation and relation between Indian hockey team and International Olympic Association is turning dirty day by day. Ahead of the starting of the 31^st Games the team has already engaged in several tussles with the IOA. Now following the dissatisfaction over kits, they decided to boycott the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics where they are to represent the country. Email from men's team head coach Roelant Oltmans coming to light where he laments the lack of proper kit for the team. Both coach Oltmans and captain PR Sreejesh have said that the team will not be part of the opening ceremony on Friday. Reacting to this Rakesh Gupta, India's Chef de Mission told that this is not the right representation of facts and Hockey India was given all kit two weeks back. Gupta was clearly displeased with Oltmans and the way Narender Batra, the hockey boss, has blamed the IOA. Apart from the hockey men’s team other athletes also have dissatisfaction over the official Olympic kit. Mainly the women Olympians placed this dissatisfaction. Some of them have taken the decision of carrying the blazer on their hands rather putting them on their sarees. “By wearing a blazer we are covering the look. I probably wouldn’t wear it on top. Probably I will be carrying it in my hand this time. I love sarees, and I really can do justice to them. But the blazer…” says Jwala Gutta, representing Indian badminton squad at Rio 2016.