Olympic opening uses girl’s voice, not face

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The little girl shown in the opening ceremony singing the "Ode to the Motherland" wasn't actually singing at the event, but she wasn't even lip-synching a prior recording of her own voice but another girl's. Apparently the real singer was deemed to ugly by the officials. They showed pictures of her. She does have crooked teeth but is otherwise pretty. While we were watching the event my husband did say that she was lip-synching and doing a bad job at that, but we thought they wanted to make sure the song was correctly sung. After all, it's a little girl and she could have shown nerves. But I think this is a little too much. They had no way of finding a girl with a good voice and what they deemed pretty? They had to shame one into 'oh we like your voice but not your face'?? Personally, I don't think that is right. It also doesn't cast a good light on the country, IMO. Reminds me very much of Milli Vanilli, lol.