China wasn't the first Olympics host country to pull a Milli Vanilli on the unsuspecting world; it turned out Australia was.

According to the AFP, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra was miming to a recording of another orchestra in one of their performance in the 2000 Sydney Olympics opening ceremony.

"It's correct that we were basically miming to a pre-recording," SSO managing director Libby Christie said.

Christie said the recording was used because of workload issues and the organizers wanting "to leave nothing to chance."

China received a fair amount of criticism when it was found out that the little girl who sang in the opening ceremony wasn't singing in her own voice, but was lip-syncing to another's.