BEIJING, China (AP) — A 7-year-old Chinese girl was not good-looking enough for the Olympics opening ceremony, so another little girl with a pixie smile lip-synched “Ode to the Motherland,” a ceremony official said.
9-year-old Lin Miaoke had the ‘cute’ face that Olympic organizers wanted for the opening ceremony.
A member of China’s ruling Politburo asked for the last-minute change to match one girl’s face with another’s voice, the ceremony’s chief music director, Chen Qigang, said in an interview with Beijing Radio.
“The audience will understand that it’s in the national interest,” Chen said in a video of the interview posted online Sunday night.
The country’s quest for perfection apparently includes its children.
I knew that lil girl didn’t look like she was singing. Way to go China…
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