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A ceremony more intimate and melancholy of the inaugural two most beautiful words, closed the ventiduesimi Winter Games in Sochi.
Sunday 23 February 2014 5 minutes reading time
Author of the ceremony is an Italian director Daniele Finzi Pasca. At Fisht Olympic Stadium on everything opens at 20:14 as the opening ceremony of the Olympic year as a reminder of the current, with the appearance of figures that are arranged in four circles and an asterisk, I remember joking of what happened in the ceremony d & rsquo , when opening the glowing circle in the upper right corner did not open. Again, as was the custom, the delegations of the 88 participating countries, unlike the opening, not for a parade and a separate, but all mixed with each other, including the standard-bearers, including our Arianna Fontana.
Are made awards of the mass start of skiing both characterized by a triplet, that of Norway in the women's 30 km and that of Russia, in the 50 km men's, women are rewarded by Gianfranco Kasper, President of FIS, the men from the IOC Thomas Bach. The two new members of the IOC Athletes Commission, the Norwegian biathlete Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, the new record holder of medals at the Winter Games, and Canada's Hayley Wickenheiser, the first woman winner of four consecutive Winter Olympic gold medals in the same event, hockey Women's ice, reward the work of volunteers paying tribute to four of their representatives. It starts with the spectacular with the figures that surround the diamond-shaped pianist Denis Leonidovich Macuev running a piece of the great Sergei Rachmaninov, then pay homage to the ballet and literature, two more reasons to be proud of the Russian people, and then even the circus.
Here comes the official closing: greek hymn, after which the Russian was performed at the beginning of the ceremony, and Olympic anthem with the flag removed from the yard and delivered by the children to the Mayor of Sochi Anatoly Pakhomov, these hands it to the chairman of the IOC Bach which completes the handover by putting it in the hands of Lee Seok-rae, the mayor of Pyeongchang, the city that will host the 2018 Winter Games ventitreesimi. So anthem of South Korea and begins the ceremony dedicated to the Asian country that has hosted the Summer Games in Seoul 1988. After a beautiful musical enter the South Korean athletes, then it's up to the speeches of the final budget by the President of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee Dmitry Chernyshenko and the president of the IOC Bach declaring officially closed this edition of the Games.
Last part of choreography: the bear on skates, the bunny skiing and snowboarding leopard, the three mascots come in giant size and is the first of three to blow to extinguish the fire of the tripod that has illuminated for 17 days a & rsquo , which closed in the winter edition of the Olympiad the most moving and that is revealed, unexpectedly for many, and also for the writer while having a boundless love for winter sports, unforgettable.
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