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London 2012 Olympics close with spectacular ceremony
BBC News ^ | 13th August 2012 | BBC News

Posted on 08/12/2012 7:03:42 PM PDT by the scotsman

'The London 2012 Olympics have ended with a spectacular musical closing ceremony and the official handover to the next host city, Rio de Janeiro.

The three-hour show featured some of the biggest names of British pop from decades past, including the Spice Girls, George Michael and Elbow. Games chief Lord Coe said: "When our time came - Britain, we did it right."

The official Games flag was handed to the mayor of Rio before the flame at the Olympic Stadium was extinguished.

President of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge, who declared the Games of the 30th Olympiad closed just before midnight, said: "We will never forget the smiles, the kindness and the support of the wonderful volunteers, the much-needed heroes of these Games. "You, the spectators and the public, provided the soundtrack for these Games. "Your enthusiastic cheers energised its competitors and brought a festive spirit to every Olympic venue."

At the close of the ceremony, watched in the stadium by the 10,000 athletes and 80,000 spectators, the flame was extinguished in dramatic fashion. Each nation will receive one of the cauldron's 204 petals.

As fireworks went off above the east London stadium, the Who performed My Generation and the venue became a sea of red, white and blue confetti.

The finale, which began with Big Ben chiming, paid tribute to UK music, fashion and culture.'

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 2012olympics; ioc; london; olympics; theend
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1 posted on 08/12/2012 7:03:51 PM PDT by the scotsman
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To: the scotsman

Dreck


2 posted on 08/12/2012 7:07:28 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Roger Taney? Not a bad Chief Justice. John Roberts? A really awful Chief Justice.)
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i’m watching it now.....10000 times better than the opening ceremonies....Eric Idle just did a hysterical version of “always look on the bright side of life” as only he can...


3 posted on 08/12/2012 7:11:57 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: the scotsman
I don't think so...

The song “Imagine” — Imagine there's no heaven —no!

Imagine there's no countries... Then there wouldn't be an Olympics dipsh*t’s!

4 posted on 08/12/2012 7:12:56 PM PDT by MacMattico
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To: the scotsman

Id rather have a root canal


5 posted on 08/12/2012 7:13:40 PM PDT by al baby (“If Barack Obama has a Harvard law degree, he didn’t earn that. Somebody else made that happen.”)
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To: God luvs America
Eric Idle just did a hysterical version of “always look on the bright side of life” as only he can...

The S-Bomb was not bleeped during the live stream.

6 posted on 08/12/2012 7:13:46 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: the scotsman

The drunken sots may now return to their hovels in London. But be careful. Those hate filled muzzies are out and about!


7 posted on 08/12/2012 7:13:58 PM PDT by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: the scotsman

Not all that spectacular.


8 posted on 08/12/2012 7:15:37 PM PDT by righttackle44 (I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine.)
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To: dfwgator

Brain May of Queen kicking ass as usual....pretty disgusted they’ve done nothing for the mighty Led Zeppelin as of yet...


9 posted on 08/12/2012 7:16:01 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: God luvs America

Brian May and Pat Metheny must have the same hairdresser.


10 posted on 08/12/2012 7:18:32 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: the scotsman

Spectacularly bizarre and borderline hallucinogenic.


11 posted on 08/12/2012 7:18:41 PM PDT by brewcrew (Life is tough. It's tougher if you're stupid. --John Wayne)
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To: righttackle44

NCIS had a couple of great programs on that somehow I had previously missed - or simply forgotten that I had watched them before. One of the great things about getting old is that there are no reruns!


12 posted on 08/12/2012 7:18:41 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: the scotsman

Oh man! I just finished making popcorn and popped a beer to sit down and watch the Olympics. Oh well, back to work.


13 posted on 08/12/2012 7:18:41 PM PDT by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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To: God luvs America

Led Zep, Def Leppard, there are so many great bands they could choose from.


14 posted on 08/12/2012 7:19:21 PM PDT by Windcatcher (Obama is a COMMUNIST and the MSM is his armband-wearing propaganda machine.)
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To: God luvs America
10000 times better than the opening ceremonies

Absolutely positively 100% agree.

15 posted on 08/12/2012 7:20:26 PM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: the scotsman

The Olympics? Are they starting? Crap, I forgot all about them.


16 posted on 08/12/2012 7:21:28 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Whatever a homosexual union might be or represent, it is not physically marital. - F.Cardinal George)
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it’s awful and Im from England


17 posted on 08/12/2012 7:21:54 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: brewcrew

I don’t know. Now if they had done a sendup of Laser Floyd... ;^)


18 posted on 08/12/2012 7:22:51 PM PDT by Windcatcher (Obama is a COMMUNIST and the MSM is his armband-wearing propaganda machine.)
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To: God luvs America

Man, you are easily pleased.


19 posted on 08/12/2012 7:24:29 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature not nurture TM)
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To: God luvs America

this is really terrible IMHO and what on earth is she doing killing this song, we will rock you then the old singers who dusted off the cobwebs.

My kids ae saying the same and they have friends staying who also agree.

just get the fireworks on please


20 posted on 08/12/2012 7:25:03 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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