India’s Olympic body appeals to end sponsorship

The head of India’s Olympic committee called on Wednesday for the 2012 London Games to end Dow Chemical’s sponsorship because of the company’s ties to the deadly 1984 gas leak in Bhopal, India.The Indian Olympic Association is holding a two-day meeting beginning Thursday to decide what to do about the issue. Top officials have ruled out calling for a boycott of the games. “Olympics are about love, brotherhood and transparency and this company (Dow) is linked with another which was responsible for killing thousands of Indian people,” the IOA’s acting president Vijay Malhotra said, according to the Press Trust of India. “It’s unacceptable that such a company is a sponsor in the Olympics. So we will ask the London organizers to remove the company from being a sponsor.”