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12 Gorgeous Photos From The 2012 Olympics Closing Ceremony

by Kellie Foxx-Gonzalez | 1:16 pm, August 13th, 2012

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1.Spice Girls

The London Olympics have come and gone, and the world has a slew of amazing athletes to celebrate, in addition to a lot of dreaming young future Olympians to tend to. Here are 12 photos from the dazzling closing ceremony that capped off the 2012 London Olympics, an event that proved to be just as beautiful as the two weeks of peaceful and inspiring competition that preceded it. Oh, and our favorite pre-Olympics rumor totally panned out, the Spice Girls did perform during the ceremony! Be still my made-in-the-90s heart.

(via The Huffington Post and VH1.)

2.Spice Girls

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3.Spice Girls

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4.Fatboy Slim On An Olympic Octopus

(via Francois Xavier Marit/AFP/Getty Images.)

5.Emeli Sandé

(via Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images.)

6.Monty Python's Eric Idle

(via Adrian Deniss/AFP/Getty Images.)

7.Russell Brand

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8.Ballerina Darcy Bussell As A Fiery Phoenix

(via Scott Heavey/Getty Images.)

9.British Supermodels Strutting Their Stuff

Kate Moss joined Naomi Campbell, Lily Cole, Lily Donaldson, David Gandy, Karen Elson, Jourdan Dunn, Georgia May Jagger and Stella Tennant as they cat-walked to David Bowie's "Fashion."

(via Getty Images.)

10.Winston Churchill Returned From The Dead

Portrayed by Timothy Spall, of course!

(via AFP Photo/ Adrian Dennis.)

11.John Lennon's Giant Head

No retrospective of British culture is complete without John Lennon's giant head!

(via Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images.)

12.And Somehow Batman and Robin Snuck In...

...apparently the same way he snuck back into Bane's Gotham.

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Anonymous

I turned it off after I saw Fat-Batman. That was just wrong… I DVR’d in 3D (delayed broadcast) so I could watch tonight. Hopefully I’ll remember to fast forward that part.
http://twitter.com/urbansuburbia Marie

I missed Fatboy Slim AND Monty Python?? Well crap.
Anonymous

Apparently the Batman thing was less about Batman and more about a reference to a (famous in England) comedy show…which once did a spoof on Batman.
http://www.facebook.com/iain.phillips.969 Iain Phillips

that batman is a referrence to an episode to a show called only fools and horse.. i highly recommend you tubing that scene.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=658295430 Calum Syers

The Batman and Robin gag is a reference to British TV sitcom, “Only Fools and Horses”, where Del Boy and Rodney (the show’s two leads) have to run to a costume party after their car broke down and accidentally stop a robbery.
Anonymous

The Batman and Robin part was in reference to an ‘Only Fools and Horses’ episode where the two main characters get stuck in the middle of town dressed as batman and robin. It was voted as one of the funniest moments ever on UK TV. Understandable that it would appear as a weird cameo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nMVWAVrVAw
Anonymous

Thanks for the info!
http://twitter.com/loerwyn Kathryn

Not Monty Python, just Eric Idle.
Anonymous

Karen Elson is 10 times cooler than Kate Moss.
Anonymous

And after 2 and a half weeks of stifling, unbearable positivity, when faced with the closing ceremony the British public let out a sigh of relief and unleashed the snark and moaning we’d been holding back. Oh it felt so good…

What happened? Someone made some truly godawful decisions when it came to that closing ceremony. I’m talking Could-Possibly-Be-Charged-With-Treason level of bad. Do we still exile people? I think we need to do that to someone, anyone. I’ll accept a scapegoat. Possibly the Spice Girls. Because nothing else seem to keep them broken up.
http://profile.yahoo.com/F6WDMXYFH6S5NTOYGNP6WPXGFA Sarah

And STILL no Dr. Who!
http://wolfsilveroak.insanejournal.com/ Wolf

Actually, that was a near exact skit from The Meaning of Life. The main difference my husband was helpful in pointing out, being that the ‘angels’ weren’t topless in this one.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1232957605 Leah Nardo

….no Doctor Who? Seriously? It’s only the biggest international hit they have right now.
http://twitter.com/zenoferic Erica Throne

I didn’t watch either the opening or the closing in their entirety, but from what I have seen, the closing was the most graceless pile of muck Britain could have possibly come up with.
http://twitter.com/loerwyn Kathryn

But it was still Eric Idle, not Monty Python.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MYC65UZW7OMSYCL4YRFH4XKKKQ Brian

Nah, that song was Christmas in Heaven. Total coincidence here.
http://twitter.com/urbansuburbia Marie

Well, I know. But Eric Idle excitement still comes from a place of MP fandom :)
http://twitter.com/urbansuburbia Marie

MP are my initials and I momentarily confused myself after that posted. I do not have self-fandom.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Lynda-Bowen/1676002712 Lynda Bowen

James Bond?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Lynda-Bowen/1676002712 Lynda Bowen

Sherlock?
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_R7GVNIKWG3S2UTHEQOMSZXT4M4 Anna B

I didn’t care much for the opening, either. I know everyone loved it, but I thought it was harrowing to sit through all that. The only part I liked in it was Mr. Bean.

I didn’t watch the whole closing ceremony, either, but I enjoyed listening to George Michael’s Freedom and John Lennon singing Imagine.
http://twitter.com/KiraV Twat & Bollocks

In the opening ceremony, at some point, you can actually hear the Tardis.
http://twitter.com/diefrankenmaus Kate

The whole, “Here’s holographic Freddie Mercury, oh wait, this chick’s going to caterwaul the song” was a major disappointment to me.
http://twitter.com/apsutter2004 April Sutter

Oh man…I missed that Darcy Bussell was in it! She is an absolutely breathtaking dancer and now I want to look it up on youtube