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‘Cute’ girl forced to mime at Olympics ceremony after China banned seven-year-old with crooked teeth
Nicola Boden and David Williams
Daily Mail
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
China picked a ‘cute’ nine-year-old girl to mime at its Olympic opening ceremony after deciding a seven-year-old with a ‘flawless’ voice was not pretty enough to perform.
Lin Miaoke, in her angelic red dress and pigtails, captivated the world last Friday as she ’sang’ the national anthem during its £20million opening for the Games.
But it has now been revealed the voice heard by billions both in Beijing and around the globe was in fact seven-year-old Yang Peiyi, who was banned for her crooked teeth.
In yet another example of fakery at the Games, China pre-recorded Yang singing Paean to the Motherland but chose her rival to lip-synch before the public.
The extraordinary last-minute decision to splice pictures and sound was taken just before the show by a top member of the Chinese Communist Party politburo.
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Lin’s appearance in the ceremony has made her the hottest child star in China and her picture was even printed on the front page of the New York Times.
But the true story behind her performance has now been revealed by the general music designer of the ceremony, Chen Qigang, who wanted to set the record straight.
It lays bare China’s desperation to present a ‘perfect’ image to the world and deliver the best ever Olympics, shooing away migrant workers and protesters.
The country has already confessed footage of fireworks exploding across Beijing during the ceremony was digitally inserted into television coverage in case smog blurred some of the 29 blasts.
And today Olympic officials said they had been forced to draft-in ‘cheerleader squads’ to fill empty seats in stadiums despite the Games being billed as a sell out.
Ironically, attempts to control every aspect of the Games are far more damaging to China’s reputation than if events were allowed to unfold more naturally.
Of the decision to deny Yang Peiyi her chance to perform in front of billions, Mr Qigang said: ‘The first condition was that the director wants the image to be very cute.’
A 10-year-old girl who was a good singer was initially selected and used for all the rehearsals but it was eventually decided she was too old.
Organisers wanted a younger child and picked Yang Peiyi for her ‘flawless’ voice but were told at the last minute that Lin Miaoke would be the one to appear on stage.
Mr Qigang told Beijing People’s Broadcasting Station: ‘The reason was for the national interest. The child on camera should be flawless in image, internal feelings, and expression.
‘Lin Miaoke is excellent in those aspects. But in the aspect of voice, Yang Peiyi is flawless, in each member of our team’s view.’
He added: ‘This was a last-minute decision, we had to do it. We had been through several inspections, they were all very strict.
‘When we rehearsed at the spot, there were spectators from various divisions, especially leaders from the the Politburo who gave the opinion: It must change.
‘This is to say, we had no choice… We have a responsibility to face the audience of the whole country, to give this explanation.
‘Everyone should understand this in this way: this is in the national interest. It is the image of our national music, national culture. Especially the entrance of our national flag, this is an extremely important, extremely serious matter.
‘Then we made such a choice. I think it is fair to both Lin Miaoke and Yang Peiyi. That is to say, we have a perfect voice (in our team’s view), and a perfect image and representation, two combined together.’
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August 12th, 2008 at 10:13 am
“Everyone should understand this in this way: this is in the national interest. It is the image of our national music, national culture. Especially the entrance of our national flag, this is an extremely important, extremely serious matter.”
Now they have an image of cheaters. Great PR job! LOL
August 12th, 2008 at 11:00 am
She is very fortunate that she was not dumped in a landfill when her parents found out she was a girl at birth. Still a sad story, but common in ChiComTown.
August 12th, 2008 at 11:45 am
why did the author say that china was now able to ensure the future of their children? china has done well for 100’s of years and also has a population of a billion! the US only has 300 million.
August 12th, 2008 at 11:48 am
So what? The western societies’ obession with “perfect beauty” is well known and probably the origin of this chinese move. It’s well known that the west put Mao in power and also instructed them on population control and eugenics. Eugenics has its origin in Western civilization. It started with the Greeks and got scientifically cultivated by Rothschild and Rockefeller-provided money.
Nazi Germany was a test case, though it went out of hand a bit, to say the least.
August 12th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Wow there’s another future client for the shrink’s couch. Thinking she wasnt pretty enough.
What was wrong with the 7 year old? I didnt seen any flaws in her pic.
August 12th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Their strict obedience to ‘the state’ is chilling.
August 12th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Would’ve happened in the U.S. too. Big deal.
August 12th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
wonder what bush and putin are talking about… probably figuring out the next move for the war in russia to continue their path for world government.
August 12th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Don’t tell me that obnoxious shouting USA, USA and booing participants from other countries during the Los Angeles Olympic Games was also faked.
August 12th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Milli Vanilli competition
August 12th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
“The state is the guarantor or the future of those children.” Holy sh*t! And this is being solemnly intoned over the image of goose-stepping soldiers! I am so freaking fed up with this overblown display of rampant nationalism aka the Holy Olympics. Everybody genuflect. The athletes are wonderful, but it’s too bad they have to shill for warmongering governments.
I couldn’t care less how many medals the USA brings home. I cheer for all the INDIVIDUALS and feel bad when someone blows it, even if they are from a “rival” nation. I think most normal people feel this way, but we are brainwashed to think it HAS to be an American victory! (Insert your own country in place of USA & America. Jingoism isn’t exclusively an American trait, or Chinese, for that matter.)
August 12th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
This quote certainly lends more support for the no-planes theory – “confessed footage of fireworks exploding across Beijing during the ceremony was digitally inserted into television coverage in case smog blurred some of the 29 blasts.” — see? If China can do it, we certainly can, and probably did.
Welcome to the new fake world.
August 12th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
What’s prisonplanet up to with this type of garbage? Looks like infowars is morphing into the drudgereport ….
August 13th, 2008 at 6:57 am
Guess they are becoming more like America everyday….Our Madison Avenue and Hollywood and Beauty Pageants have set the bar for illusury beauty for over a century. They have a lot of catching up to do. Pointing this out in China is missing the beam in our own eye.