Beijing 2008 Olympics Closing Ceremonies LIVE THREAD

[retrokitten]

Georgian born Khatuna Lorig will carry the US flag.

U.S. team picks Georgian to lead them in closing ceremony

[tsmith130]

Maybe they’ve replaced baseball and softball with mugging as an Olympic event in 2012.

[retrokitten]

The bus changes into Optiumus Prime and conquers the Chinese restoring them to democracy.

[silent_jonny]

Leona Lewis singing Led Zeppelin—that’s so wrong!

[retrokitten]

LOL!

WTH is she wearing???

Canada’s weird outfits made my eyes sad, Lenona Lewis singing Whole Lotta Love makes my ears want to kill themselves.

[OCC]

The kid being led to the bus on the backs of other people was.... interesting.

[silent_jonny]

The bus changes into Optiumus Prime and conquers the Chinese restoring them to democracy.

ROFLMAO!!!

[slugbug]

Leona Lewis singing Led Zeppelin—that’s so wrong!

My thoughts exactly!

[retrokitten]

ROTFL!!

[tsmith130]

My husband just sang “I wanna whole lotta viagra.”

[God luvs America]

HAIL THE MIGHTY ZEPPELIN!!!!

[Scythian]

UUUGH, SOUNDS ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE !

[retrokitten]

He looks like he’s lost quite a bit of weight.

[silent_jonny]

Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, right, and British pop singer Leona Lew perform the song "Whole Lotta Love" during the closing ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Olympics at the National Stadium, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008, in Beijing.

[retrokitten]

LOL!! That was such a boy joke. :-)

[God luvs America]

he had too...he had a lot of back problems the past ten years from all those tours hauling around the double kneck guitar...

not a big fan of the pony tail....

[Scythian]

I don’t know but that seemed totally inappropriate for the Olympics, I hate to say it but the Chinese out-classed the British by a mile. Sometimes I think there really is something to this hatred of the western society? Gosh, listen to myself, ugggh, sorry, that was just not good, and really kind of ruined the closing ceramonies.

[Scythian]

I don’t know but that (jimmy page) seemed totally inappropriate for the Olympics, I hate to say it but the Chinese out-classed the British by a mile. Sometimes I think there really is something to this hatred of the western society? Gosh, listen to myself, ugggh, sorry, that was just not good, and really kind of ruined the closing ceramonies.

[MinuteGal]

That unsettling London 2012 logo looks vaguely pornographic to me.

Leni

[G8 Diplomat]

Couldn't post about the closing ceremonies last night due to the FR proxy errors, but wow--I gotta say this is the weirdest thing I've seen in a long time. A few minutes ago a bunch of Chinese youth are singing pop and playing guitars and drumsets (geez, they're more into American pop culture than I am!). And earlier we had drummers hanging from the ceiling, dudes in bright green light-up suits, ladies in yellow dresses with fluorescent silver beads all over them, more drummers in bright orange and silver bike helmets, horrid opera singers so bad I couldn't even tell what language they were singing in, dudes in shiny suits pedaling what look like light-up hamster wheels, and the London performance took the cake for weirdness. An earsore pop singer in a silver dress and a 60-year-old Led Zeppelin guitarist with a pony tail being raised from a London double decker bus while people in weird costumes dance below??!! My eyes! My eyes!

The fireworks were cool though...I like the ones in the shape of the Olympic rings. They had enough going at one point that the Bird's Nest disappeared in a flash of bright white light...looked like it exploded for a moment there...lol. I liked it when all the athletes swarmed in, some wearing their medals. If only Phelps had been there...he could've worn all 8 at once!

My mom walked in at one point and the first thing she saw was a tower covered with silver-clad Chinese doing the wave with red streamers lifted from it fanning out in all different directions....only one thought popped into my mind, and that was one of Calvin's lines from Calvin and Hobbes: "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."

But putting that aside, this has, from a sporting perspective, been a great Olympics. 8 medals by Phelps breaking Spitz's record (including one won by .001 seconds), Afghanistan getting its first medal, US finally reclaims gold in basketball, 110 American medals, China's diving dynasty broken on the very last dive, the French swimming trash talk smashed by .008 seconds, underdog US water polo winning silver, US going 1-2 women's gymnastics all-around, Usain Bolt breaking the world record in 100m and 200m dashes, and on and on.

And besides, I shouldn't complain too much. Tomorrow gets a lot worse. The conventions begin.

[Clint N. Suhks]

That is a really cool picture of Barbra...