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The girl on the left was "not pretty enough"
"Not pretty enough"
For all of you who watched the opening ceremony, you probably remember the cute little chinese girl singing "Ode the Motherland." She was seven years old, and very impressive. We later found out that this cute little girl didn't have the voice we thought she had. She was actually lip syncing because she was better looking then the girl singing. When asked about the controversy chief music director, Chen Qigang, said that "the audience will understand that it's in the nation interest."
To me this is absolutely appalling. China is trying to look so good, be so perfect. They are trying to show that they are socially exceptive, of everyone. Then they do this. It reminds me of how when the Weather Girls sang "Its raining Men" they were forced to have super models lip synch in their first video. Why you ask? Because they were slightly overweight.
Underage Gymnastics
For all of you not familiar with the rules of the olympic games, you have to be 16 years old to compete. You may also turn 16 during the olympic year, and still be able to compete. So it is possible for 15 year olds to be in the games. The problem came up when a Chinese newspaper reported that girls on their gold favored gymnastics team were under 16 years of age. People may ask "Why does being underage give you an advantage?" Well girls hit their peak performance at different times. Girls at the age of 12 could be better then the 16 year old on the us team. So it defiantly matters. China is putting their best 6 girls on the team, no matter what. Which is cheating. Is China cheating at their own olympics? You tell me. 
16? You tell me
Spanish Basketball Team has Offensive Photo
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In this picture of the Spanish olympic basketball team, they are apparently "slanting" their eyes. It is very big stereotype of the Chinese people, and is absolutely unacceptable in this day in age. I guess this was for some sort of add for a magazine. They counter it by saying they are winking, happy they are about to go be in the Olympics. I thinking I may have just loled at that. Winking. Seriously?
Ok so I know many people on this site don't really watch the olympics. I didn't want to babble on about each one, but look for some updates on some of those, especially the age thing. A girl who goes to my high school was on the team who won silver (USA) so I am very bitter about it.
Thanks for reading.
