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Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 10:50:07 PM
Chinese officials defended their decision to pass off the voice of a 7-year-old songbird as that of another girl at the Olympic opening ceremony, calling it a simple casting choice. Critics said it was a step too far in China's obsession with the perfect Olympic Games.
Beijing organizers of the games faced tough criticism Wednesday after a whistleblower revealed that the 9-year-old who performed a song during the spectacular opening ceremony was lip-synching to another girl's vocal track.
Yang Peiyi, a 7-year-old with bright eyes and a smile made crooked by the stubs of her first grown-up teeth, was heard by an audience estimated in the billions during Friday night's ceremony, singing "Ode to the Motherland."
But they never saw her face.
( I know some might say this could happen anywhere but this didn't happen anywhere it happened in China, a nation that has the law one girl child per family or the mother must have a forced abortion. If you don't value children one way how can you honor the value of children already born. Read more on this issue Chinese defend Olympic ceremony lip-synch .)
