Tonight we say farewell London, hello Rio as the 2012 Olympics came to an end. The stars took to the stadium to perform in the Closing Ceremony as we mark the end of a fantastic few weeks with a few more medals, just to add to the celebrations.
Boxing continued one of our most successful sports at this Olympics, as two more medals were added to make it five in total. 21-year old Cardiff lad, Freddie Evans, secured a silver medal in his final bout against Kazakhstan's Serik Sapiyev. Unfortunately, Evans couldn't topple the Kazakhstani and was on the wrong end of a 17-9 scoreline. But take nothing away from the young man's achievement to take the silver medal.
It got better for Anthony Joshua, who only laced up his first Boxing glove four years ago. Joshua took on Italy's reigning Olympic champion, Roberto Cammarelle, and found himself three points behind going into the last round. Joshua then fought with everything he had to level the scores at the end of the contest at 18-18. The result then had to be decided on count back, which went in Joshua's favour. Just to make it more dramatic, the Italians appealed the decision. But it massively backfired as it turned out Joshua should have won by more than he did to win the final gold medal for Team GB.
Our final medal in London 2012 came in the final event in the games. The Modern Pentathlon finished with Samantha Murray taking the silver medal with a fantastic second place in the Combined Event. Murray finished with 5356 points, behind Lithuania's Laura Asadauskaite who set an Olympic Record with a total of 5408. Brazil's Yane Marques took bronze with 5340.
So, as we hand over to Brazil and Rio de Janeiro, there's just one more thing to say. Congratulations to Mo Farah, Greg Rutherford, Robert Grabarz, Christine Ohuruogu, Jessica Ennis, Luke Campbell, Freddie Evans, Anthony Ogogo, Anthony Joshua, Nicola Adams, Ed McKeever, Liam Heath, Jon Schofield, Bradley Wiggins, Christopher Froome, Elizabeth Armitstead, Tim Baillie, Etienne Stott, David Florence, Richard Hounslow, Jason Kenny, Sir Chris Hoy, Ed Clancy, Philip Hindes, Geraint Thomas, Steven Burke, Peter Kennaugh, Victoria Pendleton, Laura Trott, Dani King, Joanna Roswell, Tom Daley, Charlotte Dujardin, Laura Bechtolsheimer, Carl Hester, Nick Skelton, Ben Maher, Scott Brash, Peter Charles, William Fox-Pitt, Nicola Wilson, Zara Phillips, Mary King, Kristina Cook, Louis Smith, Max Whitlock, Sam Oldham, Daniel Purvis, Kristian Thomas, Beth Tweddle, Female Hockey Team, Gemma Gibbons, Karina Bryant, Samantha Murray, Alan Campbell, George Nash, William Satch, Alex Gregory, Pete Reed, Tom James, Andrew Triggs-Hodge, The Men's Eight Team, Zac Purchase, Mark Hunter, Pete Chambers, Rob Williams, Richard Chambers, Chris Bartley, Helen Glover, Heather Stanning, Anna Watkins, Katherine Grainger, Katherine Copeland, Sophie Hosking, Ben Ainslie, Nick Dempsey, Luke Patience, Stuart Bithell, Iain Percy, Andrew Simpson, Hannah Mills, Saskia Clark, Peter Robert Russell Wilson, Michael Jamieson, Rebecca Adlington, Andy Murray, Laura Robson, Lutalo Muhammad, Jade Jones, Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee, Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt and all of the other medal winners in the games as well as everyone who took part.
Good luck Rio, we shall see you in four years.
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