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Summary Deepika Padukone will be engaged for a motivational campaign during the 2012 Olympics.
According to an official spokesperson from Sports Development Corporation, Deepika Padukone has been approached as the board has been saying in all meetings that she is the only one they would like do it because she has a very strong bond with sports.When we are looking for a celebrity to promote sports, we need people to believe that if this person can achieve so much at such a young age, so can we. In the case of Deepika, she is a true young achiever. She has achieved so much at such a young age, said the statement.Meanwhile, Deepika said in a statement that sports has been her first love and she would love to do any campaign that encourages people to take up sports in India.Daughter of veteran badminton player Prakash Padukone, Deepika has been a state level badminton player herself. She, however, chose to take up acting as a career.
