Accusations of Olympic fakery cause tensions

also, check out:
http://ap.google.com/article/aleqm5gvdgdbfhvf8m_ejh8csmeibz8tfad92gspd00

apparently the little girl was lip-syncing the song because the real singer
wasn't cute enough for tv.

i don\'t get people harping on pro-recorded fireworks.. the fireworks overall
were cool and everything, but nothing compared to the rest of the show. it was
great, accept it, and move on... but for some other shockers..

people were not really flying.
the torch runner at the end was not really running on the side of the stadium.
the stadium floor wasn\'t magic, it was an led screen.

shocked i tell you.

you wouldn't catch the bbc doing this sort of crap, and it'll be much better
next time in london.

maybe some links in the article would be nice next time, seeing as the article
does link out to some very interesting pages. also a link to the actual article
would be nice, so we can go to the article and click those links ourselves. i
can't even find the article on the link provided, otherwise i would have posted
it here myself

it will be cool to see what they come up with.. but to say \"much better\" that\'s
a tall order. i am sure the organizers in the uk are putting on their thinking
caps, thinking how do we top this ?.. i wouldn\'t want to be in their shoes.

thia is such a non issue. why don't they wait for the shock and disgust that is
going to to come up when they discover someone using performance enhancing
drugs, or something like judge tampering with regards to the gymnastics
competitions. these are things that people should be getting their knickers in a
knot about, not whether or not the fireworks were real and whether or not people
on the west coast can figure out that there is about a 16 hour time difference
between china and california. eesh!

omg, this just in, the biggest scandal about the opening ceremony. li ning's
supposed "ability" to fly during the lighting of the cauldron was actually faked!

well, to me this isn't even the biggest issue. watching the nbc version and the
australian channel 7 version simultaneously, i noticed that chunks of the
speeches by the ioc and china presidents were missing from the nbc version, and
not just sections that were repeated in multiple languages. i thought it to be
very strange and wondered if nbc had some sort of an agenda or reason for
cutting out the parts of the speech. if it was just speeding up the walk of
nations with 1 or 2 athletes for time, that i could understand. sections of the
opening performances were missing also.

i'm just cracking up at all the overtones of stereotypes that the fake stuff
emanates.

maybe this is the cheap chinese knock-off of the olympics, the 'orympics'.

kinda like all those sorny, panasoanic and magnabox consumer electronics they
produce.

who cares. it's an opening ceremony. it's pizzaz and showy stuff.