Way to Give a Girl a Complex, China

If poor Yang Peiyi ends up in therapy because she’s convinced she was beaten up by an ugly stick for the first 7 years of her life, she’ll have the Olympic bigwigs in China to thank.

According to those who ran the Opening Ceremonies in Beijing, Peiyi has a face for radio. Blessed with a voice so lovely they had her sing “Ode to the Motherland,” she had a lip-synching stand-in at the mike. Nine-year-old Lin Miaoke, a seasoned pro with several commercials under her pint-sized belt, was the face presented to the 70 million viewers who tuned into the event.

First the faked fireworks and now the Milli Vanilli kiddo. We don’t know what to believe anymore. For all we know, the Chinese rower who missed his race thought they could drop him into the heat digitally. . .