London 2012 ends with sing-along party
UK: The London 2012 Games bade farewell Sunday with a giant
singalong party, bringing the curtain down in spectacular style on an
Olympics that has radiated the feelgood factor throughout.
The closing ceremony, entitled “A Symphony of British Music”, was a
celebration of Britain’s pop prowess, with Queen, Take That and the
Spice Girls getting the Olympic Stadium rocking underneath a blaze of
fireworks. Thousands of athletes who have entertained the world during
the London Games craned to take pictures of George Michael and Fatboy
Slim performing at the centre of a giant stage in the shape of Britain’s
Union Jack flag.
Meanwhile the pumped-up 80,000-strong crowd got into the party
atmosphere, singing along in full voice as waves of colour swept around
the bowl on the pixel screens in front of each seat.
The Olympic flame was slowly extinguished with tangible sadness in
the stadium, but the feeling lasted only seconds before legendary
rockers The Who blasted the blues away with a final salvo of thunderous
hard rock and dazzling pyrotechnics.
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