But the best thing about tonight’s Olympic event is not the show. It’s a little boy named Lin Hao. He’s quite the national hero! But his presence also caused some stormy controversy!

The nine-year old Lin Hao is a survivor of the Sichuan earthquake last month that killed more than 70,000 people. The second-grader was buried in the rubble that was his school but he managed to get out. And then he crawled back into the pile and got two of his classmates out. When he was later asked why he did that, the boy innocently said that he was class monitor leader, and that it’s his responsibility to look after his classmates. That little boy is standing much taller than the big man who carried the Chinese flag.

There is something else about this Olympics that Chinese bloggers are talking about. Not by accident, the tiny flag that Lin Hao is waving is upside down. It’s an international nautical distress signal. It’s a cry for help. And someone thought of sending that message out at the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.

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This boy stole the show at 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony