A pretty girl who won national fame after singing at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games was only miming. Wearing a red dress and pigtails, Lin Miaoke charmed a worldwide audience with a rendition of “Ode to the Motherland”. But the singer was Yang Peiyi, who was not allowed to appear because she is not as “flawless” as nine-year-old Lin. This is the second “fake” story about the opening ceremony after viewers around the world saw a display in which 29 firework “footprints” travelled across Beijing from south to north, but a senior official from the Beijing organising committee confirmed on Tuesday that footage of the display had been produced before the big night.