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China To little Girl - Ur Too Ugly To Appear On Stage At Opening Ceremonies
August 12th, 2008
So I guess this is how the complex starts for little girls:
Olympic child singing star revealed as fake
by Charles Whelan Tue Aug 12, 8:30 AM ET
BEIJING (AFP) - The little girl who starred at the Olympic opening ceremony was miming and only put on stage because the real singer was not considered attractive enough, the show’s musical director has revealed. “The reason why little Yang was not chosen to appear was because we wanted to project the right image, we were thinking about what was best for the nation,” Chen said in an interview that appeared briefly on the news website Sina.com before it was apparently wiped from the Internet in China.
Pigtailed Lin Miaoke was selected to appear because of her cute appearance and did not sing a note, Chen Qigang, the general music designer of the ceremony, said in an interview with a state broadcaster aired Tuesday.
Photographs of Lin in a bright red party dress were published in newspapers and websites all over the world and the official China Daily hailed her as a rising star on Tuesday.
But Chen said the girl whose voice was actually heard by the 91,000 capacity crowd at the Olympic stadium during the spectacular ceremony was in fact seven-year-old Yang Peiyi…
…who has a [fattier] face and uneven teeth.
“The reason why little Yang was not chosen to appear was because we wanted to project the right image, we were thinking about what was best for the nation,” Chen said in an interview that appeared briefly on the news website Sina.com before it was apparently wiped from the Internet in China.
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Shameful!!!! I spread this link through twitter. I missed last Friday’s radio show:(. Was Sanjay’s fifth birthday and plum forgot.
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Incredible. Not only did the Chinese foist this piece of trickery on the world but we come to find out that much of the opening ceremonies were computer generated. And how about the 12-14 year old girls participating in the woman’s gymnastics?