* Show director hails singer’s ‘extraordinary’ performance * IOC plays down booing of US vice president JD Vance The organisers of the Winter Olympics opening ceremony have refused to deny speculation that the US pop diva Mariah Carey lip synced her part in the show. Carey took to the stage to sing Domenico Modugno’s “Nel Blu, dipinto di Blu” in Italian, followed by one of her own songs, “Nothing Is Impossible”, but many on social media quickly claimed that there were several times where her lip movements were out of time with the music. When asked directly whether Carey was lip synching, the director of the show, Maria Laura Iascone, confirmed that there had been a pre-recording – but refused to say whether it had been used or the American had sung live. Continue reading...

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