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London Olympics Closing Ceremony Photos & Links (2)

Photos Courtesy of HuffingtonPostMSN and AssociatedPress

To view all the Closing Ceremony Performances go to the NBC Olympics Website

List of Music and Performers at Closing Ceremony

  • London Symphony Orchestra “God Save The Queen” 
  • Emeli Sande – Read All About It 
  • Urban Voices Collective – Because
  • Julian Lloyd Webber featuring London Symphony Orchestra- “Salut D’ Amour”
  • Madness  – “Our House”
  • Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls
  • One Direction “What Makes You Beautiful”
  • The Beatles – “A Day In The Life” and “Here Comes The Sun” 
  • Ray Davies – “Waterloo Sunset”
  • Elbow  – “One Day Like This”
  • Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 
  • Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Choir featuring John Lennon Imagine
  • George Michael – “Freedom and “White Light” 
  • Kaiser Chiefs  – “Pinball Wizard”
  • David Bowie Various Songs
  • Annie Lennox – “Little Bird”
  • Ed Sheeran featuring Nick Mason, Mike Rutherford and Richard Jones “Wish You Were Here”
  • Russell Brand – “Pure Imagination”
  • Russell Brand featuring – “I am the Walrus” (The Beatles cover)
  • Fatboy Slim  – “Right Here, Right Now” & “The Rockafeller Skank”
  • Jessie J – “Price Tag”
  • Tinie Tempah – “Written in the Stars” 
  • Taio Cruz – “Dynamite”
  • The Bee Gees – “You Should Be Dancing”
  • Spice Girls – “Wannabe”, “Spice Up Your Life” 
  • Beady Eye – “Wonderwall” 
  • Electric Light Orchestra – “Mr. Blue Sky” 
  • Eric Idle  – “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” 
  • Muse – “Survival”
  • Brian May and Roger Taylor  – “Brighton Rock”
  • Queen and Jessie J – “We Will Rock You”
  • London Symphony Orchestra – Various Orchestral Music 
  • Marisa Monte – “Bachianas Brasileiras No 5 “
  • BNegao – “Maracatu Atômico”
  • Seu Jorge – “Nem vem que não tem”
  • Marisa Monte , Seu Jorge and BNegao – “Aquele Abraço”
  • London Symphony Orchestra – “Extinguishing the Flame”
  • Take That – “Rule The World” 
  • John Barry – “The John Dunbar Theme” from Dances With Wolves 
  • David Arnold – “Spirit of the Flame”

The Who – “Baba O’Riley” “See Me, Feel Me” and “My Generation”

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London Olympics Closing Ceremony Photos & Links (1)


Photos Courtesy of HuffingtonPostMSN and AssociatedPress

To view all the Closing Ceremony Performances go to the NBC Olympics Website

List of Music and Performers at Closing Ceremony

  • London Symphony Orchestra “God Save The Queen” 
  • Emeli Sande – Read All About It 
  • Urban Voices Collective – Because
  • Julian Lloyd Webber featuring London Symphony Orchestra- “Salut D’ Amour”
  • Madness  – “Our House”
  • Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls
  • One Direction “What Makes You Beautiful”
  • The Beatles – “A Day In The Life” and “Here Comes The Sun” 
  • Ray Davies – “Waterloo Sunset”
  • Elbow  – “One Day Like This”
  • Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody 
  • Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Choir featuring John Lennon Imagine
  • George Michael – “Freedom and “White Light” 
  • Kaiser Chiefs  – “Pinball Wizard”
  • David Bowie Various Songs
  • Annie Lennox – “Little Bird”
  • Ed Sheeran featuring Nick Mason, Mike Rutherford and Richard Jones “Wish You Were Here”
  • Russell Brand – “Pure Imagination”
  • Russell Brand featuring – “I am the Walrus” (The Beatles cover)
  • Fatboy Slim  – “Right Here, Right Now” & “The Rockafeller Skank”
  • Jessie J – “Price Tag”
  • Tinie Tempah – “Written in the Stars” 
  • Taio Cruz – “Dynamite”
  • The Bee Gees – “You Should Be Dancing”
  • Spice Girls – “Wannabe”, “Spice Up Your Life” 
  • Beady Eye – “Wonderwall” 
  • Electric Light Orchestra – “Mr. Blue Sky” 
  • Eric Idle  – “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” 
  • Muse – “Survival”
  • Brian May and Roger Taylor  – “Brighton Rock”
  • Queen and Jessie J – “We Will Rock You”
  • London Symphony Orchestra – Various Orchestral Music 
  • Marisa Monte – “Bachianas Brasileiras No 5 “
  • BNegao – “Maracatu Atômico”
  • Seu Jorge – “Nem vem que não tem”
  • Marisa Monte , Seu Jorge and BNegao – “Aquele Abraço”
  • London Symphony Orchestra – “Extinguishing the Flame”
  • Take That – “Rule The World” 
  • John Barry – “The John Dunbar Theme” from Dances With Wolves 
  • David Arnold – “Spirit of the Flame”

The Who – “Baba O’Riley” “See Me, Feel Me” and “My Generation”

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London 2012 Olympic Games: Ashton Eaton & Basketball

USA Ashton Eaton (Decathlete)


USA Women’s and Men’s Basketball Teams

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Olympic Rewind: Medal Wins and Photos (Twelve)

Great Britain’s Mo Farah (Track and Field)

♦London 2012 Rewind: Photos & Videos From

August 10 & 11 & 12 2012

Photos Courtesy of HuffingtonPostMSN and AssociatedPress

Colombia’s Carlos Mario Oquendo Zabala (BMX Cycling)

France Julie Bresset (Cyclist)

BMX cyclist Sarah Walker of New Zealand, Mariana Pajon of Colombia, and Laura Smulders of Netherlands

Andrei Bahdanovich and Aliaksandr Bahdanovich, Peter Kretschmer and Kurt Kuschela of Germany, and  Alexey Korovashkov and Ilya Pervukhin of Russia (Canoe Double)

Yury Postrigay and Alexander Dyachenko of Russia (Kayak)

Yelena Lashmanov, Russia’s Olga Kaniskina and China’s  Qieyang Shenjie (Race Walk)

Jared Tallent of Australia, Sergey Kirdyapkin of Russia and  Tianfeng Si of China (Race Walk)

China’s Zou Shiming (Boxing)

Cao Zhongrong China, David Svoboda Czech Republic and Adam Marosi Hungary  (Pentathlete)

Uganda Stephen Kiprotich (Marathon)

Australia Mathew Belcher and Malcolm Page (Sailing)

Saul Craviotto Rivero of Spain, Ed Mckeever of Great Britain and  Mark de Jonge of Canada (Kayak)

Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark of Great Britain, Jo Aleh and Olivia Powrie of New Zealand

and Lisa Westerhof and Lobke Berkhout (Sailing)

Sabine Spitz of Germany, Julie Bresset of France and Georgia Gould of USA (Women’s Cross Country)

Tunisia Oussama Mellouli (Marathon Swimming)

Turkey Aslı Çakır Alptekin (Distance Running)

Bjorn Otto of Germany, Renaud Lavillenie of France

and Raphael Holzdeppe of Germany (Pole Vault)

Laura Asadauskaite of Lithuania (Pentathlete)

Russia Team Volleyball

Serbia’s Milica Mandic, France’s Anne-Caroline Graffe, Russia’s Anastasia’s Baryshinkova

and Mexico’s Maria del Rosario Espinoza  (Taekwondo)

Azerbaijan Sharif Sharifov (Wrestler)

Croatia Men’s Water Polo

Russian rhythmic superstar Yevgenia Kanayeva, Daria Dmitriyeva Kanayeva and Lyubov Charkashyna

Adilbek Niyazymbetov of Kazakhstan, Egor Mekhontcev of Russia, Esquiva Falcao Florentino of Brazil

and Oleksandr Gvozdyk of Ukraine (Boxing)

Ethiopia, Meseret Defar, Kenya’s Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot,  Ethiopia’s  Tirunesh Dibaba (Long Distance Running)

Cuba’s Roniel Iglesias Sotolongo, Denys Berinchyk of Ukraine, Vincenzo Mangiacapre of Italy and Munkh-Erdene Uranchimeg of Mongolia (Boxing)

USA Jake Varner (Wrestling) 

South Korea’s Han Soon-chul,  Ukraine’s Yasyl Lomanchenko and

Cuba’s Yasnier Toledo Lopez and Lithuania’a Evaldas Petrauskas (Boxing)

Anthony Joshua (Boxing)

Azerbaijan’s Toghrul Asgarov, Russia’s Besik Kudukhov, India’s Yogeshwar Dutt and Coleman Scott of USA (Wrestling)

Germán Sánchez and Ivan Garcia Navarro of Mexico,  Cao Yuan and Zhang Yanquan of China

and  Nicholas McCrory and David Boudia of the US (Men’s Synchronised)

Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk (Boxing)

Denys Berinchyk of Ukraine,  Roniel Iglesias Solotongo of Cuba, Vincenzo Mangiacapre of Italy

and  Munkh-Erdene Uranchimeg of Mongolia (Boxing)

Trinidad and Tobago’s Keshorn Walcott , Ukraine’s Oleksandr Pyatnytsya and

Finland’s Antti Ruuskanen (Javelin Throw)

Támara Echegoyen, Ángela Pumariega, Sofía Toro Spain (Sailing)

China’s Cao Yuan and Zhang Yanquan (Divers)

Russia’s Daria Dmitrieva, Russia’s Evgeniya Kanaeva and Belarus’ Liubou Charkashyna (Gymnastics)

 

Japan Ryota Murata (Boxing) 

Georgia’s Davit Modzmanashvili, gold medallist Uzbekistan’s Artur Taymazov,

Iran’s Komeil Ghasemi and Russia’s Bilyal Makhov (Wrestling)

 

Mariya Savinova (800 metres)

Ireland’s John Joe Nevin, Britain’s Luke Campbell, and Satoshi Shimizu and Cuba’s Lazaro Alvarez Estrada (Boxing)

Russia’s Anna Chicherova,USA’s Brigetta Barrett, left, and Russia’s Svetlana Shkolina (High Jump)

Italy Carlo Molfetta carlo (Taekwondo)

Anita Wlodarczyk of Poland, Tatyana Lysenko of Russia and Betty Heidler of Germany (Hammer Throw)

Brazil Volleyball Team

Mexico Football Team

USA Volleyball Team

Norway Handball Team

Germany Hockey Team

USA Soccer Team

Misty May Treanor and Kerri Walsh

USA Team Jordan Burroughs (Wrestling)

New Zealand Lisa Carrington (Kayak)

Georgia’s Vladimer Khinchegashvili, Russia’s Dzhamal Otarsultanov, North Korea’s Yang Kyong Il

and Japan’s Shinichi Yumoto (Wrestling)

Netherlands Team Women’s Hockey

Argentina Sebastián Crismanich (Taekwondo)

South Korea’s Hwang Kyung-seon, Turkey’s Nur Tatar, Germany’s Helena Fromm and

United States’ Paige McPherson (Taekwondo)

Robeisy Ramirez Carrazana of Cuba, Tugstsogt Nyambayar of Mongolia  and

Misha Aloian of Russia and Michael Conlan of Ireland (Taekwondo)

France’s Men’s Handball Team

Sushil Kumar of India, Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu of Japan, Akzhurek Tanatarov of Kazakhstan, Livan Lopez Azcuy of Cuba (Wrestling)

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