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What a fabulously successful 11 days these amazing athletes have had. Well done to all of them

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Dear VPM, how i totally agree with you.

I agree but think they deserved a better closing ceremony. A one act pop concert with some special effects is not what I consider imaginative. I thought it was the worst of the four ceremonies but at least they didn't wheel out any of the geriatrics like McCartney, John and Richard.

Geoff wrote:I agree but think they deserved a better closing ceremony. A one act pop concert with some special effects is not what I consider imaginative. I thought it was the worst of the four ceremonies but at least they didn't wheel out any of the geriatrics like McCartney, John and Richard.

We turned the ceremony off after enduring the first part of Coldplays concert as we thought that the almost maudlin and depressing Coldplay songs just weren't appropriate for what should have been a celebration/party to mark the end of a successful games.

I thought the closing speeches were good though and we loved the 'mechanicals', but the sequences acted out during the concert were a bit rubbish and we also thought that it was by far the worst of the 4 ceremonies.

The Paralympians deserved a much better, more upbeat affair - what a let down

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Whatever happened to classical music at all these ceremonies? Has nobody ever heard of it? I'm beginning to think I'm the only solitary nerd who would have appreciated a little more serious culture. We have an awful lot of it in Great Britain and it seemed that anything which wasn't "modern day dirge" as my dad used to call it, has been wiped from the history book.

Primrose wrote:Whatever happened to classical music at all these ceremonies? Has nobody ever heard of it? I'm beginning to think I'm the only solitary nerd who would have appreciated a little more serious culture. We have an awful lot of it in Great Britain and it seemed that anything which wasn't "modern day dirge" as my dad used to call it, has been wiped from the history book.

Oh did you see the Wallace and Grommit Childrens Prom? My 8 year old and I thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing but my 5 year (attention span of a gnat) lost interest after 15 minutes.

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