In contrast to the extravaganza put on by the Chinese at the closing ceremony in Beijing, the handover to London featured a tongue-in-cheek show with a red double-decker bus, footballer David Beckham and Led Zeppelin rocker Jimmy Page and pop star Leona Lewis. "I think what you will see is a very vivid sense of celebration right across the city at both the opening and closing ceremonies." The London Games must be deeply democratic, with the city's citizens feeling they're intimately involved. We want the whole of London to be involved, with different parts of London taking part in the ceremony. What we want is new ways of thinking about the opening ceremony. Jowell said: "We don't want to try to emulate Beijing. Instead of holding the ceremonies inside the main Olympic Stadium, the London organising committee is looking at staging a series of events across the city, The Independent reported. Organisers of London 2012 will not try to imitate the pageantry of the opening and closing ceremonies at the Beijing Games, Olympics minister Tessa Jowell said.
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