I think your blind love for Tendulkar is stopping your proper thinking. Sachin is opting for it to come in the lime light of olympic torch mania and may be he will entertain you in that process!! Look at the worldwide protest for the Tibet treatment and even the Foot ball captain rejecting the offer to carry the torch. Mr first understand Cricket is not an olympic game and it is not appropriate preference to be given to some players whose game is represented. When we need his services for the tests where India is crumbling madly, he is staying away for some groin injuries which has been a long long story and he jumped at this event for media exposure. Come on man, show your spirit in appropriate things. This is like a humanities specialist asked to address an engineering forum. You need to change your thinking and stop licking for Sachin. He may be great cricketer but what all he does need not be right all the time.