THIS NEWS IS SO DAMN WTH LUH, I WAS COMPLETELY CHEATED. thought the singer was the fake one. haiyo. the real one is so cute luh why they go pretend its the other girl. STUPID SAVING-FACE LUH.

Tue, Aug 12, 2008AFP


Olympic child singing star was a fake
BEIJING, Aug 12, 2008 (AFP) - The little girl who starred at the Olympic opening ceremony was miming and only put on stage because the real singer was not considered attractive enough, the show's musical director said.
Pigtailed Lin Miaoke was selected to appear because of her cute appearance and had not sung a note, Chen Qigang, the general music designer of the ceremony, said in an interview with a state broadcaster.
Photographs of Lin in a bright red party dress were published in newspapers and websites all over the world and the official China Daily hailed her as a rising star on Tuesday.

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But Chen said the girl whose voice was actually heard by the 91,000 capacity crowd at the main Olympic stadium was in fact seven-year-old Yang Peiyi, who has a chubby face and uneven teeth.
"The reason why little Yang was not chosen to appear was because we wanted to project the right image, we were thinking about what was best for the nation," Chen said in the interview that appeared briefly on the popular news website Sina.com on Tuesday before it was wiped from the Internet.
Lin was seen to perform the patriotic song "Ode to the Motherland" as China's national flag was carried into the stadium, a key moment in the three hour opening ceremony.
"The reason was for the national interest. The child on camera should be flawless in image, internal feelings, and expression," he said.
"Lin Miaoke is excellent in those aspects. But in terms of voice, Yang Peiyi is perfect, each member of our team agreed," he said.
Fake TV images used because of pollution
Television images of a key part of the Olympic opening ceremony were pre-recorded and cut into live footage of the spectacular because of poor visibility in the city, Olympic organisers conceded Tuesday.
The dramatic giant footprints of fire that appeared to "step" from Tiananmen Square to the northern Beijing Olympic district were pre-prepared, Wang Wei, vice president of the Beijing Olympic organising committee said.
However, he insisted that the fireworks that created the 29 steps had actually exploded on the night and most of the television images used of the ceremony were genuine.
"At the opening ceremony there were actual footprints fired from the south to the north of the city," Wang told reporters.
"However, because of the poor visibility of the night some previously recorded foots may have been used."
Reports in the Beijing Times said that the moment had been expensively faked by a production company, who created a computer-generated version of the stepping fireworks.
The company, Crystal fireworks, used effects to capture the shakiness of filming from a helicopter and even the blurring effect of haze, the newspaper reported, citing the head of the visual effects team for the ceremony.
"Most of the audience thought it was filmed live -- so that was mission accomplished," Gao Xiaolong told the paper.
Wang said only that the footage was "previously recorded" without elaborating.
The spectacular opening ceremony was held last Friday and beamed to audiences across the world, featuring thundering fireworks, hordes of martial arts fighters and a dramatic flame-lighting moment by former gymnast Li Ning.
The day of the ceremony had been blighted by a heavy haze above the National Stadium -- nicknamed the "Bird's Nest" -- which organisers blamed on the high humidity.
It followed days of smog across Beijing, raising fears that the city's notorious pollution could force endurance events to be delayed over concerns about athletes' safety.