The Portrait of a Deceitful "Olympic Host" -- Girl lip-synched another's
performance at Olympic opening / IHT

International Herald Tribune

Girl lip-synched another's performance at Olympic opening
By Jim Yardley

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

BEIJING: Pigtailed and smiling, Lin Miaoke, age 9, stood in a red dress
and white shoes during the Olympic opening ceremony last Friday and
performed "Ode to the Motherland" in what would become one of the
evening's most indelible images: A lone child, fireworks blazing
overhead, singing a patriotic ballad before an estimated one billion
viewers.

Except that she was not really singing.

Her proud father, who learned of her singing role only 15 minutes before
the ceremony, watched on television and noticed "that the voice was a
little different from hers."

On Tuesday, Lin Hui said in a telephone interview that he had assumed
"the difference might be caused by the acoustics."