For the athletes, the closingceremony is traditionally a welcome chance to blow off the steam of the previous two weeks of dogged determination and competition at the highest level.
The wheelchair-bound javelin and shot put thrower was the women's Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award winner in Sunday's Paralympic closingceremony -- an award given to a male and a female athlete who exemplify the Paralympic spirit.
The Mercury award-winning band created the anthem for the BBC's Olympics coverage and performed their hit One Day Like This in front of a TV audience of more than 26 million at the Olympics closingceremony.
The activities stretch over most of the summer, from a ten-week torch relay beginning on May 19th to the closingceremony of the Paralympics on September 9th.
His first major retrospective, which is drawing to a close at Tate Modern in London, has been a hit with visitors, and he created a giant spin-style painting to adorn the floor of the Olympic Stadium for the 2012 London Games closingceremony.