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2008-08-13 China-Japan-Koreas

Olympic child singing star was a fake: ceremony director

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Posted by john frum 2008-08-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Duh. There are no live performances in China, only lip-synching. I thought everyone knew this?

Posted by gromky 2008-08-13 00:57|| 2008-08-13 00:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Much like the event scoring...

Posted by Boss Thravith3041 2008-08-13 01:02|| 2008-08-13 01:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, at her age we were at least spared a 'accidental' bra malfunction. Gee, Beijing has gone Hollyweird. Who'd thunk.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-08-13 08:55|| 2008-08-13 08:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Thought that was obvious watching it, good to have confirmation. Also, the fireworks display disproved itself without commentary because there were not smoke clouds after the explosions (baby was asleep so I missed the commentary). And IIUC they had the steven spielberg of china orchrastrating the opening ceremony. The chinese would like the rest of the world to be wowed, but even with 1.2 bln or however many people and money spent they still could not get everything right. What I would like to know is that if that big drum circle at the beginning the lights were supposed to flicker (even though I'm sure I will be told they were). Perhaps they filled the stadiums with all the 3 gorges dam refugees a la dnc homeless solution.

I keep in mind that this is a big pr stunt by prc even though I'm not supposed to think that and keep it in perspective - notice how they always had a china sign in the background during the womens gymnastic medly? Next we'll hear about diatary supplements made in china being laced with illegal enhancers - whoops sorry any Greeks out there.

In just a humanitarian view, it is disgusting to see such an extravigant buildup and display after such a brutal winter and earthquake but I guess with 1.2 bln what is 40,000?

Enjoy the olympics for what they represent, but keep the bs filters smog-free.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-08-13 12:41|| 2008-08-13 12:41|| Front Page Top

#5 btw, I thought the USA women gymnists did exceptional, minus a few mistakes in the final round. It was an event the chinese were tailor made to win and the USA stepped up and gave them a good run. I wonder what happened to russia and romania, 2 other great schools, never was really covered.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-08-13 12:50|| 2008-08-13 12:50|| Front Page Top

#6 ...seems to be talk about the prc women gymnists being underage. We decide last night that they looked like they were around 12 years old. Physically they still had 'kid muscle', but in their eyes; that is how they were judging their environment.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-08-13 15:10|| 2008-08-13 15:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Bet money the the girl on stage was the daughter of some party bigwig.

Posted by DoDo 2008-08-13 16:49|| 2008-08-13 16:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Sounds like the Whitney Houston Super Bowl non-performance.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2008-08-13 20:59|| 2008-08-13 20:59|| Front Page Top

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