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Conspiracy Theories
Aug. 19th, 2008 11:17 amI've not been able to watch much of the Olympics, although I'm pretty pleased to not that we're doing pretty well this time around. Brits, it seems, are good at rowing and cycling.
There have been a few rather ugly marks on this Olympics though, which are fascinating me rather more than the medals table...
This one is probably my favourite:
0.001 of a second
A site documenting Omega sponsored Phelp's victory in an Omega sponsored lane, to the naked eye coming second but the Omega timing device recording a 0.001 victory. Not at all suspicious.
Age contraversy
One of many articles about Chinese gynmast He Kexin who was 13 last year, but now appears to have a passport that proves she's 16. The minimum age for gymnasts in the Olympics has been 16 since 1990 to try to protect the welfare of child gymnasts. A British gymnast came 4th in this competition, so most of the UK articles are about how she 'should have won'.
Rehearsal injury
Liu Yan, a dancer who was rehearsing for the opening ceremony, fell over 3 meters and landed on her head. Officials said she had a 'broken leg' and nothing more for a few weeks. How the hell you can fall on your head and break your leg, I don't know. They've since admitted she's probably paralysed, and so covered up the severity of her injuries for some reason.
CGI fireworks
Some of the effects in the opening ceremony were faked becaue officials were worried the live ones wouldn't work.
Nice voice, shame about the face"
7 year old Yang Peiyi, who won a competition to sing at the opening ceremony, was deemed not pretty enough, and so a 9 year old mimed instead.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kafunked and I commented as we watched the ceremony that she was miming, it was pretty obvious, but we assumed she was miming an older girl's voice! Sad thing is, Yang Peiyi is a perfectly beautiful little girl, she just has wonky teeth, just like a million other little 7 year olds in the world.
And finally, because there has to be an 'and finally',
British cheat caught out by green water...
There have been a few rather ugly marks on this Olympics though, which are fascinating me rather more than the medals table...
This one is probably my favourite:
0.001 of a second
A site documenting Omega sponsored Phelp's victory in an Omega sponsored lane, to the naked eye coming second but the Omega timing device recording a 0.001 victory. Not at all suspicious.
Age contraversy
One of many articles about Chinese gynmast He Kexin who was 13 last year, but now appears to have a passport that proves she's 16. The minimum age for gymnasts in the Olympics has been 16 since 1990 to try to protect the welfare of child gymnasts. A British gymnast came 4th in this competition, so most of the UK articles are about how she 'should have won'.
Rehearsal injury
Liu Yan, a dancer who was rehearsing for the opening ceremony, fell over 3 meters and landed on her head. Officials said she had a 'broken leg' and nothing more for a few weeks. How the hell you can fall on your head and break your leg, I don't know. They've since admitted she's probably paralysed, and so covered up the severity of her injuries for some reason.
CGI fireworks
Some of the effects in the opening ceremony were faked becaue officials were worried the live ones wouldn't work.
Nice voice, shame about the face"
7 year old Yang Peiyi, who won a competition to sing at the opening ceremony, was deemed not pretty enough, and so a 9 year old mimed instead.
kafunked and I commented as we watched the ceremony that she was miming, it was pretty obvious, but we assumed she was miming an older girl's voice! Sad thing is, Yang Peiyi is a perfectly beautiful little girl, she just has wonky teeth, just like a million other little 7 year olds in the world. And finally, because there has to be an 'and finally',
British cheat caught out by green water...
