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p2pnet news view | Politics:- Everything had to be flawless for the opening of the Beijing Olympics - including the way the little girl who sang Hymn to the Motherland, looked.
In the eyes of Chinese officials, it was the singer, not the song.
Her name is Yang Peiyi (right) and although her voice is perfect, her teeth are a little crooked in the front and with the whole world watching, that wouldn’t do.
So Lin Miaoke was chosen chosen as the face China presented to the world.
A Beijing primary school student, she, “impressed the spectators when she appeared on the stage in a bright red party dress, says official state news agency Xinhua.
She to lip-synced to Yang Peiyi’s voice, but when the fakery was revealed, it caused international outrage.
But not to worry. It was all about context, says a senior IOC official.
“There were a number of candidates to sing the song and the artistic directors just picked the best voice and the best performer,” has Sun Weide, an official with the Beijing Organizing Committee, stating.
And, “You have to make sure performance and the song is at the highest level, it is a casting or it is a technical decision by the producer,” IOC Olympic Games executive director Gilbert Felli says in the story.
“You have to put it into the context of the opening ceremony and the complexity of 15,000 performers. Of course all of them have to change roles on the preparation,” he added.
China was also caught red-handed faking a fireworks display featuring a pair of giant feet in the sky.
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fakery was revealed - Beijing Olympics lip-syncing scandal, August 12, 2008
Xinhua - Games organizers say girl’s vocal lip-synched to ensure “best voice, best performer”, August 13, 2008
red-handed - China’s face is red over Olympics fake, August 12, 2008
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August 13th, 2008 at 11:24 am
well if they had choosen the “real singer” with the non perfect teeth, at least they could have shown in 4 years how superior chinese orthodontics are compared to those of the west.
What now remains is that the chinese have a government and olympic officials that are fakers!
August 13th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Only idiots are “outraged” by this. People who have another agenda.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:52 am
So I guess now that we have had the fake fireworks, the fake clean sky to see them in, the fake singer who wasn’t pretty enough and the little girl you would never have known of it this didn’t come out who was the singer.
So what’s next? A fake Olympic where fake athletes, do fake events, for fake times and scores? Maybe a few fake world record holders come out of it?
I sort of think China isn’t a ready for these events as they thought they were. You’ve learned you can’t trust what you see, you can’t trust what you hear; what’s the purpose of having games that you can’t trust the out comes of? I think the whole things reflects sordidly on China and all the crapola about protecting the kids as the reason to make laws doesn’t help at all when the leaders are the ones that need to learn the lessons.
August 14th, 2008 at 2:07 am
Did the Chinese governement learned the BS for the majors? You remember miss lip sync and Britney Slute?
Althoug stalinist regime are the master of BS just like the RIAA. RIAA= Stalinist=Neocons Different name, same thing and same damage.
This is a circle indeed. If you go to far right you end up beieng a stalinist just as if you go to far left.