The Olympic Stadium comes alive with the closing ceremonies lights up the finale of the London Games 2012. Olympics Closing Ceremony photos and images in social media starts coming in faster than the NBC olympic coverage. There was an estimated global audience of 750 million in the closing ceremony that also includes a handover to the next host city for the 2016 Summer Olympics, Rio de Janeiro. Around 4,100 performers, including 3,500 adult volunteers, 380 schoolchildren from the six original host boroughs, and 250 professionals were included in the ceremony.
The Olympic Cauldron was extinguished at 00:01, BST 13 August 2012 to signify the end of the Games. Overall the London Games received widespread acclaims worldwide, leaving tournament filled with memories of both winning moments and heartbreaks as well.
Among the London Olympic highlights, Michael Phelps became the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time, winning his 22nd medal. Great Britain achieved its highest tally of gold medals since 1908, finished third in the medal table. Great Britain got 29 Gold, 17 Silver, 19 Bronze with 65 total in medals.
Final Olympic Medal Count
Country - Gold - Silver - Bronze - Total
1. USA - 46 - 29 - 29 - 104
2. China - 38 - 27 - 22 - 87
3. Great Britain - 29 - 17 - 19 - 65
4. Russia - 24 - 25 - 33 - 82
5. South Korea - 13 - 8 - 7 - 28
Jamaican Usain Bolt became a legend as the first sprinter to retain all three sprinting gold medals (100 meters, 200-meters, 4x100 Relay) at consecutive 2008 and 2012 Olympics. More and more Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Brunei entered female athletes for the first time in Olympic Games.
The opening ceremony was watched by 40.7 million people NBC has since found that streaming live all of the Olympic sports events online has not cut into its prime-time audience, which has been unexpectedly bigger than the 2008 games in Beijing.
NBC stressed that Olympic closing ceremony stream was an experiment. The stream is available to cable and satellite customers who go to the NBCOlympics.com website.
Sunday's closing ceremony is described as spectacular featuring the re-unite performance of Spice Girls, live acts of The Who, One Direction, Jessie J, George Michael, Muse and others in a show that will include performances of some 30 British hit singles over five decades. Paul McCartney wasn't around this time after the out of tune pitch he did in the opening ceremonies, lots of people expecting Adele to perform but she wasn't there also. Regardless the outcome of closing ceremonies live coverage, the images of London Olympics finale is spectacular and would ranked to the books better than it's predecessor Beijing Olympics. Check the Olympics Closing Ceremony 2012 Photos above
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