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siri_depaula in ontd_olympics

How Dare You, Australia!

Aug 28, 2008 20:14

Eight years after it hosted an Olympics that were famously hailed as the "best games ever," Sydney has had to confess that it faked one of the key musical performances at the opening ceremony in 2000 ( Read more... )

sydney 2000, controversy

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rlmoonyk August 29 2008, 00:22:14 UTC

HDT

I can never trust the Olympics ever again
I bet Phelps didnt swim those 8 races but another swimmer did

siri_depaula August 29 2008, 00:36:51 UTC

The real truth is that there is no actual Michael Phelps. He has always been a computer generated "person" craftily designed by corporate heads to increase revenue for things like Rosetta Stone. They also paid struggling actresses to pretend to be his "mother" and "sisters."

mysterytiffany August 29 2008, 11:23:12 UTC

LMAO!

I refuse to believe! :(

necr_ophelia August 29 2008, 00:30:53 UTC

I read that earlier and was like "WTF?" I wonder when it will all just become CGI. :|

bearlovesyou123 August 29 2008, 00:52:51 UTC

during the opening ceremonies this year, there were so many moments where they'd zoom out to like the drummers or the moving boxes or the tai chi dudes, and i could have sworn that someone had just copy, pasted into cgi. i could not believe what i was seeing.

heartlockedx August 29 2008, 01:25:55 UTC

My entire belief system is crumbling down...I can't take it anymore lol

Mini-Rant kokosalaki August 29 2008, 02:11:02 UTC

I'm surprised that people actually think the performances are live. I thought it was well known that people "mime" at the opening/closing ceremonies? They use a backing track because they don't want to take any chances. It's understandable why the Sydney orchestra did it and if the organizers in Beijing had allowed Yang Peiyi to sing at the opening ceremony, she would've mimed anyway.

It's not a big deal to me.

Re: Mini-Rant siri_depaula August 29 2008, 02:39:14 UTC

I think you're right. I didn't care when people were freaking out over Yang Peiyi, and I was being very sarcastic when I put together the original post. It's just a SHOW, after all. I think a large reason why people overreacted to the opening ceremony "controversies" was because it was the Chinese, to be honest.

Re: Mini-Rant heygingersnap August 29 2008, 04:00:47 UTC

I have to agree on your last comment. :|

Re: Mini-Rant kokosalaki August 29 2008, 05:01:13 UTC

You're right, it's just entertainment. A lot of time and money goes into planning the ceremonies, so it's understandable that they would want things to be perfect. I'm sure people are going to look for more "controversies" from past opening/closing ceremonies.

I agree with the last part of your comment too.