Ethnic groups faked at opening ceremony

August 15, 2008 Fake fireworks, a fake singer and now fake children at the Olympics opening ceremony. Organizers of the Games acknowledged Friday that children dressed in ethnic costumes from around China who carried the Chinese flag at the ceremony were not actually from those ethnic groups, some of whom have tense relations with the government. Games vp Wang Wei played down the latest incident, saying he did not know exactly where these children were from as they were performers representing China's 56 minority groups.

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