olympics 2012

by; Sah Ynoue

Here is a great video that shows what I am talking about with airbrushing models for magazines: www.youtube.com QUOTED FROM MSN “BEIJING - Chinese officials defended their decision to pass off the voice of a 7-year-old songbird as that of another girl at the Olympic opening ceremony, calling it a simple casting choice. Critics said it was a step too far in China’s obsession with the perfect Olympic Games. Beijing organizers of the games faced tough criticism Wednesday after a whistleblower revealed that the 9-year-old who performed a song during the spectacular opening ceremony was lip-synching to another girl’s vocal track. Yang Peiyi, a 7-year-old with bright eyes and a smile made crooked by the stubs of her first grown-up teeth, was heard by an audience estimated in the billions during Friday night’s ceremony, singing “Ode to the Motherland.” But they never saw her face. Organizers passed the song off as being sung by Lin Miaoke, another perky schoolgirl who donned a sparkly red dress and soared on wires above the 91000-strong crowd at the Bird’s Nest stadium. Beijing officials on Wednesday defended the decision to use both girls, saying the artistic directors could cast whoever they saw fit. And they were unapologetic about keeping the lip-synch a secret. “There were a number of candidates to sing that song and at the end of the day the artistic directors picked the best voice and the best performer,” Beijing organizing committee spokesman Sun Weide said. Wang Wei …

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I always thought that it was my duty, in my life time to see at least one Olympic Event. But the 2000 Sydney Olympics? Just the Australian National Anthem, Advance Australian Fair at the Opening Ceremony verifies MY LUCK!!

zennie2005.blogspot.com — Last Friday’s Olympics Opening Ceremony in Beijing Olympics Stadium was without a doubt the greatest event of its kind in the history of the Olympic Games. It was China’s “coming out” party, and the organizers 0 million was well-spent. The results showed in China Olympian Li Ning’s levitating speed-skater style “walk” around Olympic Stadium and his lighting of a giant torch, which in turn caused what had to be the largest fireworks display in the history of the Olympic Games, if not the World. A spectacle that looked tremendous, and even animated, and that’s because it was. The organizers of the event admitted that computer graphics were used to “replace” the actual fireworks images because the fear was that the “haze” — read: smog — was so bad that a great camera shot of the pyrotechnics would have not been possible. Still, it was controversial because it took away from the overall historic effort and also took the wind out of the sails of the China Olympics, and sadly. I write that because regardless of that country’s problems, we’re all fans of the Olympics and want to see it go well. Period. But what was done reminded me of the movie “Wag The Dog”. That flick, which starred Robert De Nero and Dustin Hoffman, was about a war that was staged on a television set and never happened at all. With China’s actions, we’re a massive step closer to that possible occurence. China not only faked the fireworks, but the singer employed in the Opening …

10 February 2006, Opening Ceremony of the XXth Olympic Winter Games TORINO 2006 document cio extraits de la cérémonie d’ouverture

The most important highlight of the entire ceremony: The lighting of the Olympic Flame. The fisrt Torch bearer is Herminio Menéndez who passes the falme to EPI, a basketball star. Antonio Rebollo receives the flame and lits the cauldron with an unforgetable arrow.

One of the best Olympic theme songs.

This is the 2010 opening ceremony version she sang, available on Itunes. OK here is the LIVE recorded version audio www.youtube.com

Nikki Yanofsky sings the Canadian Anthem “I Believe” at the 2010 Olympics Opening Ceremony in Vancouver: The young and talented Nikki Yanovsky performs “Don’t Know Why” by Norah Jones, from the album “Come Away With Me” with the original songwriter, Jesse Harris. Don’t forget to check out Nikki’s other rawsession videos. She is simply amazing.