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Another Olympic Beijing Lie

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Hubsta
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Following the other thread about the faked fireworks at the beijing opening ceremony, China 'Faked' the school girl singing the chinese anthem.

[url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/2545387/Beijing-Olympics-Faking-scandal-over-girl-who-sang-in-opening-ceremony.html[/url]

Does anyone else have a suspicion more aspects from the ceremony were fake?
Aug 12 2008 6:43PM
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Hubsta
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/2545387/Beijing-Olympics-Faking-scandal-over-girl-who-sang-in-opening-ceremony.html
Aug 12 2008 6:43PM
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dave44
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hah, my sister said she was lip syncing when we watched it too

i think the orchestra music at Torino 06 was sync'd too
Aug 12 2008 6:46PM
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toominator
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Its not that big a deal, if I was spending $70 million on a one off show I'd want to take every step I could to make sure it didn't fuck up too
Aug 12 2008 6:48PM
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hart62
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they spent 300 million, not 70
Aug 12 2008 7:13PM
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RICK_ROSS
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300 mil
Aug 12 2008 7:14PM
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toominator
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ah well even more reason not to screw it up haha
Aug 12 2008 7:16PM
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soup
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oh fuck haha.  no wonder the girl was lip syncing imagine she screwed up.  fucing head would be gone.
Aug 12 2008 7:25PM
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Jamie_Baril
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when i was watching it i knew that the footprints were fake!
Aug 12 2008 7:29PM
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shibby
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That's lame as fuck. If I want to watch fake fireworks and cute little Asian girls fake sing then I'll watch a Japanese anime show.
Aug 12 2008 11:19PM
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Franny
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A bigger problem is that Canada still has no golds.
Aug 12 2008 11:22PM
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Dan.
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fucking chill out and let them be. every single pop singer in this country lip syncs, its not a big deal. go back to your louisiana swamp where theres no internet or cable and stop hating on china just because its the thing to do.
Aug 12 2008 11:25PM
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Blurst
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i dont think canada has a medal yet
and how can you fake fireworks?
Aug 12 2008 11:29PM
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Dan.
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they didn't fake any fireworks. they shot fireworks that were not safe to film from helicopters, so they used CGI to recreate the fireworks seen live on your TV
Aug 12 2008 11:30PM
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SteezyasPie
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CGI, also did anyone else catch the story about the chinese claiming the smog was "mist"?
Aug 12 2008 11:31PM
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shibby
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Why are you comparing pop singers to the Olympics? Also, how would I post or see the ceremony with no cable or interwebz?
Aug 12 2008 11:37PM
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Dan.
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i'm saying performances at the super bowl are lip synced all the time and that doesnt make the news, how is this newsworthy?
Aug 12 2008 11:52PM
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shibby
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Lip syncing is horrible whether it's at the Super Bowl or the Olympics. Still the Olympics are big time and the fact that they've openly admitted to faking certain aspects of the ceremony is kind of beat. It's not very genuine or representative of what the games are about.
Aug 12 2008 11:58PM
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ECski
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Thats not even really the worst instead of the cute little asian girl lip synching to a tape song they had her lip sync while an asian girl with a better voice who wasnt cute sang the song in the basement. ridiculous, of course they said it was to make everything look good for china but thats awful.
Aug 12 2008 11:59PM
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birdshake
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because its the olympics in a red country
Aug 13 2008 12:03AM
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popNfresh44
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Aug 13 2008 12:37AM
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ButteredToast.
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No dude that wasn't even the girls voice.
The real girl who was GOING to sing got booted at the last minute because they decided she was too ugly.
Then they subbed in a cuter little girl for her to mouth the words to the anthem because she put off a "better image for china"

Hmmm, so we figured it out, how's your image now china?
Aug 13 2008 1:22AM
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ButteredToast.
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haha that made me lol really hard, but more like I just took the time to read the article.

Figured it out was a poor choice of words. The coordinator dude came forward anyway.
Aug 13 2008 1:33AM
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armadapandemic89
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i don't remember if it was the orchestra, but i know the opera singer faked singing b/c he had stomach cancer and it hurt so bad or something.
Aug 13 2008 2:15AM
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Hubsta
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I'd say that was a legit reason
Aug 13 2008 8:03AM
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Mike34113
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yeah ik i heard about this its alllll over the news

Aug 13 2008 8:27AM
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liukangkid
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yeah good thing they didnt fuck up by sending a ugly girl out to represent china

Aug 13 2008 9:34AM
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dbchili
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tie lights to a million birds backs, shoot them out of a cannon into the sky and then gradually snipe them down one by one, duh
Aug 13 2008 9:52AM
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frstyl46skier
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Yes that is but this is something totally different. They had a girl with the great voice sing but then a few weeks before the ceremony they took the good singing girl out and had a diff girl lip sync to her voice. They took her out because she was too ugly. They wanted someone better looking and more cute so they picked a diff girl to lip sync the other girls song. Thats fricken retarded i think. Its completely messed up
Aug 13 2008 10:09AM
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SkiUnit03
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thats not retarded that makes a lot of sense. Cute little girls sell alot better than ugly less little girls. What kind of stupid ass country would send out an ugly kid to represent them? hopefully not my stupid ass country
Aug 13 2008 10:27AM
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MCIRONCOCK
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Hay gusy i think dat they took the ugly gurl out at da last second and put in the kute gurl so that dey had a betterer imij. That r gay.
Aug 13 2008 10:30AM
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Ryno
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I dont see why the world media is making such a big deal about this. Everyone fucking does it yet when the Chinese do it everyone points there fingers at them and shuns them.

How fucking typical...The news media are the biggest hypocrites on the planet.
Aug 13 2008 10:47AM
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Aaaron.
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for the epitome of world peace
the olympics are pretty screwed over
Aug 13 2008 10:50AM
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skijunkiedtm
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translation any one?
Aug 13 2008 11:16AM
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Dr.Scholl
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god damn china
fucking shit up
stupid communists
Aug 13 2008 11:16AM
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BASS_PRO_SHOP
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i think the deal was that the girl who was the actual singer, they didnt use because she wasnt "beautiful" the chinese put it. and this commercial girl gets all the cred for it all because of her looks. but hey the "ugly" girl was very honored for them to use her voice so thats cool.
Aug 13 2008 11:40AM
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Ryno
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I realize that but its not like this is some new form of trickery, this shit goes on everywhere so I dont see why its a big deal when China does it.
Aug 13 2008 11:44AM
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Hubsta
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Because it's the Olympics and on the media are focused on it?
Aug 13 2008 11:50AM
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SKIDUBAIGUY
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Exactly, bands are doing it allk the time.
Aug 13 2008 11:53AM
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Pipe_Munky
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because China is a country plagued with human rights violations and communism not allowing free speech and other liberties that we all enjoy in western civilization. they have a lot to prove to the world with these games and every little blip on the radar will be intensely scrutinized.



Aug 13 2008 11:58AM
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C_Shred
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does anybody else see the problem in a developing country spending 300 mill on the opening ceremonies alone? but good luck to vancouver in following up that ceremonie, it was wicked
Aug 13 2008 12:01PM
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-Tristan-
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Because its the olympics, and not some MTV awards show. It goes against everything the modern olympics represent. It would be a big media event no matter what country it was in.
Aug 13 2008 12:10PM
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[MEGAMO]
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there is a bigger issue here than just switching that girl. practically the whole chinese gymnastics team looked underage, but they apparently had chinese passports. ya, passports my ass, they cheated. that one 20 year old girl couldnt have been more than 15, and another one looked like she was 8
Aug 13 2008 12:56PM
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Ryno
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China might have fucked up the image of the Olympics a bit, but that's nothing compared to the scandals and shit that follow the Olympics offical governing body, the IOC.
Aug 13 2008 12:56PM
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SARTRON
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the girl who was "singing" was cute and thats why they picked her. but i guess she thought that she was actually singing but it was the ugly girls prerecorded voice.

so low
Aug 13 2008 3:18PM
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