Summer Olympics: Lip-Synching Scandal, Lin Miaoke and Yang Peiyi
Ouch! 7-year-old Yang Peiyi found out just how competitive the Olympics are when she was told that her face was “not suitable” enough to perform China’s National Anthem at 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony last week.
Peiyi’s “crooked teeth” were to blame and while it was still her singing, 9-year-old Lin Miaoke and her perfect smile were seen lip-syncing “Ode to the Motherland.”
“The main consideration was the national interest,” a Chinese official said in a statement. “The child on the screen should be flawless in image, in her internal feelings, and in her expression. In the matter of her voice, Yang Peiyi was flawless, in the unanimous opinion of all the members of the team.”
“We have a responsibility to face the audience of the whole country, and to be open with this explanation. We should all understand it like this, it is a question of the national interest. It is a question of the image of our national music, our national culture.”
“Especially at the entrance of our national flag, this is an extremely important, an extremely serious matter.”
“So we made the choice. I think it is fair to both Lin Miaoke and Yang Peiyi, after all, we have a perfect voice, a perfect image and a perfect show, in our team’s view, all together.”
Wow. That’s pretty harsh! She’s 7 and adorable. That will send the poor girl to the therapist and the orthodontist ASAP since it’s a matter of “national interest.”
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