Dazzling closing ceremony of 2010 GuangZhou Asian Games with “Rain”

By GARY LIM

GUANGZHOU: It’s over. The sixteenth Asian Games, Guangzhou 2010 had officially ended on 27 November after 9704 athletes from 45 countries competed against each other for 2 weeks.

The closing ceremony kicked start with the theme song “Leave Your Song Here” at 8:06 pm local time with a total of 35000 spectaculars and ended at around 10 pm taking approximately 2 hours to end. China again offered another spectacular ceremony for the world to mark the end of the largest ever Asian Games in the history of Asia.

This time the closing ceremony contained more songs and dances celebration.

The performance included the culture from China and other nations in Asia such as India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, Lebanon and Mongolia. This is a way to bring and unite the whole Asia together into this very special occasion.

The gigantic-scale and splendid fireworks display amazed the audiences.

The stylish fireworks shoot out from the 610 meters Canton tower lighting up the sky of GuangZhou beautifully and colourfully. It became a hazy night for GuangZhou after the fireworks.

The difference between the opening ceremony and closing ceremony was the creation of the biggest opera house of 1500 strong chorus that echoed to the heavens and to the lovers of loves in the earth.

China had dominated this Asian Games after 16 days by winning 199 of 476 gold medals to prove Chinese are top world class athletes in GuangZhou. Whereas Malaysia had brought back 9 gold medals which achieve their goal.

Following is the list of Malaysian gold medalists of the 16th GuangZhou Asian Games:

1. Alex Liew and Aaron Kong (Bowling - Men's Doubles)

2. Alex Liew (Bowling - Men's All-Events)

3. Azizulhasni Awang (Cycling - Men's Keirin)

4. Chai Fong Ying (Wushu - Women's Taijijian/Taijiquan)

5. Datuk Nicol Ann David (Squash - Women's Individual)

6. Datuk Nicol David, Sharon Wee, Low Wee Wern and Delia Arnold (Squash - Women's Team)

7. Mohd Azlan Iskandar (Squash - Men's individual)

8. Ku Jin Keat (Karate - Men's Kata)

9. R. Puvaneswaran (Karate - Kumite Men's below 55kg)

Check the full GuangZhou Asian Games final Medal tally here.

Within these 2 weeks, the athletes had break 3 World records and 130 Asian records in this game. The badminton representative of China, Lin Dan who won all major championship title was voted as Most Valuable Player of China.

Korean pop star Rain also preseneted in the closing ceremony by rendering 3 songs which are Rainism, Hip Song and Friends. This is part of the promotion for the 2014 Incheon Asian Games in South Korea. The Mayor of Incheon Song Young-gil also officially received the theme flag.

The closing ceremony ended with “Kai Xuan” performed by Alan Tam, Leo Ku and Hacken Lee.

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