As the 2016 Rio Olympic Games come to a close we thought it was time to take a step back and remember some of the great closing ceremony moments of years gone by.
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Is the Sydney Olympics of 2000 still the best ever games in your mind? With Nikki Webster cementing her place as a national icon, Christine Anu shining as she sung My Island Home, Midnight Oil getting political with Sorry T-shirts, and of course Kylie bringing the glitter!
And who could forget the IOC president announcing them as the “best Olympic Games ever!” Can’t argue with that.
Or perhaps you thought Sydney was missing a key element, an element as cemented in closing ceremonies throughout time as the athletes themselves – the power ballad.
And surely one can’t go past the emotion that The Power of the Dream from the 1996 Atlanta Games brought to the games.
Or maybe you can’t take the crown away from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Friends for Life from the 1992 Barcelona closing ceremony.
Athens combined the power of dance and music in 2004 in its closing ceremony.
London in 2012, however, threw it to its nation’s more time honoured tradition – pop. Letting the Spice Girls, Take That, The Who, Queen and Liam Gallagher with his then new band Beady Eye perform his old band’s hit, Wonderwall, bring the party to a world stage.
Whatever your favourite moment, but sure to let us know in the comments below.
