UPDATE: And the controversies just keep on coming:
Who knew that the Chinese translation of Milli Vanilli was Lin Miaoke?
Lin Miaoke is a fraud and a fake. The cute and precocious pig-tailed 9 year old who captured China and the world's hearts by performing at the start of the opening ceremonies actually lip synced her song lyrics to the voice of a vocal double. The child who appeared to sing live in Bird's Nest Stadium as the national flag entered was Lin Miaoke (pictured top right) . Lin became an overnight national sensation in China and wound up with her picture published on the front of the New York Times. But the real voice heard over the loudspeakers singing "Hymn to the Motherland" was actually that of 7 year old Yan Peiyi (pictured top left) who pre-recorded her vocal at the Central People’s Radio Station.
The organizers made the switch "in the national interest" because they thought the child on camera "should be flawless in image, internal feelings, and expression” and they found that Yang Peiyi's "image was not the most appropriate". Apparently, the fringe hair Peiyi, with her crooked teeth, failed the "cuteness test", but was judged to have a more "perfect voice". Miaoke had prior acting experience. She appeared in a television ad last year with gold medal hope and hurdling champion Liu Xiang and in another Olympics ad that aired just before the Chinese New Year.
The organizers ought to be ashamed of co-opting these two young girls in this political propaganda motivated switcheroo scandal!
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