I am so glad that Canada is getting on the ball! Yay, go Canada!
Here is a story in the Vancouver Province this morning. The Chinese Government at work.
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=cffd3e78-b07a-4817-a6cc-602ed7be9ee5 Michael Smyth: Beijing's winning gold for Games trickery
Nastiest secret of all is hidden, serious injury to star dancer
Michael Smyth
The Province
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Lin Miaoke, a nine-year-old Chinese girl who lip-synced a song during the Olympics opening ceremonies because the real child singer was deemed not attractive enough by Chinese authorities.
CREDIT: Xinhua/Zhou Liang - Reuters
Lin Miaoke, a nine-year-old Chinese girl who lip-synced a song during the Olympics opening ceremonies because the real child singer was deemed not attractive enough by Chinese authorities.
The fog, smog, mist or whatever you care to call it may have finally lifted over Beijing, but a heavy haze of misinformation, half-truths and outright lies still hangs over the Olympic Green.
Is China telling the truth about the Olympic Games? To more and more journalists covering the events here, the answer is obvious.
From fake fireworks and lip-synching little girls to coverups of catastrophic accidents and "volunteer" fans filling embarrassingly empty seats, the Beijing Games win the gold medal for phoniness.
The horrifying injury suffered by celebrated Chinese dancer Liu Yan is the most disturbing of the bunch.
Praised as one of China's most renowned dancers, she was supposed to perform a solo number during the opening ceremony, but fell more than three metres from a piece of scenery during rehearsals and broke her back.
Chinese authorities originally said she had only broken her leg and was recovering. Now reports indicate she's paralyzed from the waist down.
Why would China hide the truth?
They obviously didn't want anything to detract from the visually stunning and emotionally moving opening ceremony, but the discovery of the awful facts causes more damage than simply admitting it up front.
Quick disclosure of the accident and perhaps dedicating the opening ceremony to Yan would have been more appropriate.
Instead, China went to other extremes to present an opening ceremony that wasn't exactly what you saw on TV that night.
I was in the Bird's Nest when those giant footprint fireworks erupted one-by-one across the city and lumbered toward the stadium in precise, pyrotechnic formation.
But they were too precise, too perfect. Now we find out the famous footprint fireworks that were flashed across the stadium screen -- and more than a billion TV sets -- were pre-recorded animations edited into the show.
What makes this one worse is how NBC, broadcasting the opening ceremony in the United States, played along with the deception.
"You're looking at a cinematic device employed by
