Beijing Olympics 2008 Closing Ceremony (Cremonia de Clausura Olímpicos Beijing 2008)

Beijing 2008 Olympics Closing Ceremony (August 24th 2008),
The Olympic Games started in August 8th 2008 (8.8.8.), finished today.
BEIJING - To the roar of pyrotechnics over the Bird's Nest, the symbol of a new China, and a simultaneously timed circle of yet more fireworks over Tianmen Square in central Beijing, the 2008 Summer Games drew Sunday night to a close, an Olympics that in virtually every regard made history.

The Games came to the end of their 17-day run after a ceremony -- a party, really -- featuring bouncing and flying men, drum carts, rotating poles, light wheels precisely 2.008 meters in diameter and 1,148 silver bell-wearing dancers in yellow dresses, all of it a lead-up to the entry of the athletes of the world, who by tradition on the night of closing ceremony mingled together, without regard to nationality, in the center of the stadium.

The palette of colors on the field, the rousing lights around and above - all of that in turn served as mere prelude to the moment when the Olympic cauldron was extinguished, the stadium suddenly so hushed the hiss of the gas feeding the huge flame above the Bird's Nest rim clearly audible.

And then it was gone.

These Games, perhaps the most memorable Summer Olympics since the Games were reborn in Athens in 1896, were over.

"These were truly exceptional Games!" International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge declared from the center of the stadium. Unlike his predecessor, Juan Antonio Samaranch of Spain, Rogge does not describe one Games or another as "best ever."

It was clear what was at issue here from the outset -- the very first drumbeats at the opening ceremony on Aug. 8 serving notice of China's arrival among the front ranks of the nations of the world, a station Chinese athletes emphatically underscored over the next two weeks, their performance topping the gold-medal chart, with 51.

Moreover, these 2008 Games established on several fronts benchmarks against which successive editions of the Olympics are sure to be measured.

The venues were first-rate, several architectural marvels. The buses ran on time. Pollution-related concerns ultimately played no part in the sports schedule. And the thousands of blue-shirted volunteers could not have been more friendly, polite and welcoming -- even when, as was frequently the case, the language barrier proved formidable.
Some pictures about that ceremony, created by Ramses Padilla Rodriguez...
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[meow23]

do some1 know where will be the next Olympic Games??? a mean what country is next?

alguien sabe donde van hacer las prosimas olynpiadas

[Ramsespoyo0]

London, England... =D

[JoyceGomesBR]

Dude, i cry when the olympic games ended.

I am crying now just listen to this music

[Pornew2000]

It was great!

[kledmond]

I can't wait for the London Olympics! One of my dearest friends hails form London, and I know she is very proud of them. I know they will do well. Please everyone, no more horrible comments. Coming to you as a white American female, can we please get along as a planet? I'm asking my fellow Americans, as well as folks from around the world, to live in the spirit the games were meant to foster: friendship.

[cymbalistic]

What happen to the live version with Rain?

[AlexHWalker]

People I'd wait till after London 2012 to criticise them as London, and the UK on the whole, is famous for it's paegentry (did I spell that right?). Also England is the nation that created most of the Olympic sports, and if they didn't create them they were westernised here (like Badminton). So you are entitled to your opinion but I'm hopeful for London 2012, no matter how hard it'll be to live up to Beijing. Thank You Beijing, Thank You China!

[mattbraden]

London 2012 Summer, Sochi Russia, 2014 Winter, Rio De Jenero - 2016 - this will be the first games EVER IN SOUTH America!!

Election for 2020 Winter host, is set for July of this year!!

[SesyiAndraij337]

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[Hominjonathan]

london2012 gonna be boring

[bennygeovany]

hola!!! aver el soundtrack se llama "We are beijing" y los proximos juegos olimpicos son en Londres, Inglaterra 2012

[sussexpenguin]

We will never see an Olympic Games like it! For good reason. A vulgar expression of how a totalitarian regime can spend what it wants. The Media sits there in their usual hypoceytical awe. Shame on you!

Sydney 2000 was the last genuine games (and I'm not an Aussie, UK here)

[MrFashionista1]

¿como se llama esta cancion quien la canta y si la puedo bajar?