Michael Phelps did it again. And again.

The “King of Beijing” collected two more gold medals today. Those are numbers 10 and 11 for the Golden Boy. That makes him the winningest athlete in Olympics history. Oh, and one other thing. He’s also set five world records in his five events so far. He has three to go. Anyone care to bet against him?

But there is a story tied to the Olympics today -- albeit away from the competition – that is also causing jaws to drop. Not in amazement. Well, maybe. But rather in wonderment how anyone could decide to do such a thing.

It has to do with something that happened during the fabulous opening ceremonies on Friday night.

Apparently the Chinese officials were taking the idea of “fabulous” seriously. Maybe a little too seriously.

Remember the cute little girl in the red dress who was “singing” the “Ode to the Motherland” during the ceremonies? It turns out she wasn’t singing. She was lip-synching.

No big deal, right? Not exactly. It is the reason why she wasn’t singing that is raising eyebrows, and tarnishing all that gold.

It turns out Chinese Olympic officials decided the girl who actually did sing the anthem was “not suitable” to appear at the ceremonies.

In other words, she wasn’t as cute, and officials of the Communist country apparently wanted cute for the broadcast as the entire world tuned in.

They got what they wanted, but maybe not exactly the afterglow. Most people are outraged when they learn of the switch.

Oh, and one other thing. All those fireworks you saw on TV? Many of them were actually created graphically.

Is it real, or is it Memorex? In Beijing, you never know.