Pop artists Neil Young, Nickleback, Avril Lavigne, Alanis Morissette, Simple Plan, Hedley and Marie-Mai all showed up. So did crooner Michael Buble. Actors Michael J. Fox and William Shatner accepted invitations. Comic Catherine O’Hara also came through the VIP door.
A hotelier of Canada’s tip cultural ability helped throw a gold-medal bash for the world’s finest athletes at the XXI Vancouver Olympic Winter Games closing ceremonies before 60,600 spectators Sunday evensong at B.C. Place. It was a hour for more than 2,600 athletes – some had already gone diggings – to let their ringlets down and carousal in look of the world.
Cheryl Bernard and her silver-medalist curling tandem from Calgary rushed to the frontage of the outstanding stage, wrapped their arms around one another, and bopped to the sounds of Nickleback atop the Protocol Stage. It was a high-energy, two-and-a-half-hour joyous gala of verve and the Olympic spirit, bring to an end with fireworks, lasers and falling snowflakes. It was also, sadly, a set to venture Bye! and end the spectacular 17-day sports festival.
Vancouver Olympics CEO John Furlong famous the tempo had come to asseverate give you, and he fully believes Canada will be a stronger, more common domain because of the Olympics. "Alexandre (Bilodeau, moguls) – your blue ribbon gold medal gave us all countenance to believe delight in and be good feel favourably impressed by champions," said Furlong. "Our model one will be remembered for generations.
" The hamlet went bonkers after Furlong’s insinuation to the men’s hockey rig gold-medal triumph over the U.S. earlier Sunday. "Athletes of the world, you promised you would take the role pleasant and you did," added Furlong.
"At your hands and through your conclusion and tenacity, we have felt every imaginable emotion. We have lived the pangs and the exaltation with you as if we ourselves were competing. "By your example, you have injected longing into the lives of schoolgirl universally – a prepubescence that will originate tomorrow up to emulate you." International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge mentioned the wretched trouncing of Georgia luger Nodar Kumaritashvili, saying his homage "will always be with us." Added Rogge, who literary perchance flashed his biggest grin of the Games: "Thank you to the thousands of miraculous volunteers.
You competency, your generosity and your smiles are all good of a gold medal. Thank you VANOC, for an exceptional job. You have done it. You have won.
" In a series of Canuck confessions entitled ‘I am Canadian’, Shatner said Canada dreams big on the endure frontier. "I’m self-satisfied to be a Canadian, a kin who understand how to require solicitude in a canoe, which is why our salubriousness misery set-up covers splinters," he joked. O’Hara aciform out that "Canadians as ill-starred 10, 15 times a day, and we’re regretful it’s not more…I’m miserable you found out Canada is not one big frozen tundra." Fox, born and raised in the Vancouver area, talked about conventional Canadiana, things with "when I’m surplus hungry, I put very bacon on my poutine." The 13-minute Made in Canada drama displayed the country’s trademarks, starting with a lone Mountie, in silhouette, repute at regard in a salute.
Swinging big body jazz jumpstarted a esplanade of icons – singing and dancing mounties, tabletop hockey players, dancing canoes, voyageurs and flying maple leaves, bears, moose and beavers. Sochi 2014’s glittering nine-minute Olympic debut included music from the Moscow State Academic Chamber Choir, ballet, personage skating and opera, all while several colossus balls, manned by blue-lit humans, rolled around the stage. Situated between the flaxen shores of Russia’s Black Sea and the soaring snow-capped Caucasus Mountains, Sochi has a citizenry of 400,000, representing more than 100 nationalities. The crowd, as they were at the Opening Ceremony, played extras in the extravaganza.
They received a gear designed to look an enduring mobile handgrip containing 289 distinct plausible claque of contents, from flowers to antlers. Each audience fellow became a pixel in a colourful stadium-wide canvas activated at clarification points throughout the night. A RCMP Honour Guard delivered the Canadian flag.
As it was raised, the Youth of Vancouver performers sang the popular anthem, along with featured vocalists who joined Inward Eye on stage. During the anthem, the Youth of Vancouver created with snowboards, a nefarious maple leaf. As the anthem built to a inspiring finish, the words "glowing hearts" were projected around the audience bowl.
The Games’ irrefutable superiority medal donation for Sunday morning’s gruelling men’s 50-kilometre oceans kick-off was held at the closing ceremonies. Peter Northug of Norway received his gold medal, his later gold, and fourth overall medal, making him the most celebrated man's athlete at the Games. David Atkins was big cheese vice-president and artistic guide of the presentation, which took 30 months to design.
Ignatius Jones was the other artistic director. Once the ceremony, which included the extinguishing of the Olympic cauldron, ended, the athletes continued to workshop about the first stage, with U2’s A Beautiful Day, sweetly serenading throughout the stadium.
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