中国人用行动赢得了世界的尊重——贺奥运会圆满闭幕

昨晚8点，按时坐在电视机前，按下录像键，开始欣赏半天前就已在中国开始过的闭幕式。

要录下来是因为当国内朋友先我们12小时观看开幕式时我就不时电话询问，他们的说法是不怎么样、就那么回事。但待我自己看过后，感觉却是非常棒，再跟国内朋友交流，发现虽然中国中央电视台占尽了地利，但由于导播的水平太菜，导致许多场景没能用正确角度距离表现，所以很多人说后来看了许多照片都惊讶说这是我们才看过的同一个开幕式吗？

好在我这里录了象，所以说好让朋友帮我买一套国内版的，我这里拷一套北美版的，以后交流看看区别。

与开幕式相比，闭幕式的场面小了一些，技术性也低了一点，但这都不重要了，重要的是我们看到了这个中国首次主办的世界体坛盛会是以“完美”告终的。

最让我感动的是最后听到主持人以发自内心的心悦诚服沉稳而真诚地说出的结束语，让我不由泪水盈眶，因为我知道：中国用自己的每一举每一动展示了中国人的品质和风采，展示了中华民族宝贵的向心力、凝聚力和创造力，展示了中华民族至高无上的民族自尊和自豪感，赢得了世界上许多人包括原来对中国偏见极深的人的尊重。

中国，我为你自豪，我为你骄傲！


Bob Costas的结束语：

Well, just as the marathon was one of the concluding events of the Olympic Games, we are now bringing our broadcast marathon to a close.
Beyond the competitive drama, every Olympics provides a snapshot of a city and acountry at a point in time. This one was more compelling than most, sinceChina's rise and its ongoing transformation is the global story, not only of the moment, but likely of the foreseeable future. These Olympics were amilestone in that still unfolding story. And while history will tell us whether or not the Olympics provided China with the confidence to not only build on its considerable strengths, but also to address its considerable problems. This much we know. This is a country so vast, a people with lives so varied and a history so rich and complex that no visitor can fully grasp it. Still, of these Games, no advanced degree in international relationswas required to appreciate the genuine warmth of the Chinese people, the honest pride in their country and how seriously Chinese citizens, famous Olympians, to everyday men and women, took this chance to show themselves to the world.All Olympics are important to the host city. These Games were monumentally important to the host nation, which happens to be home to 1/5 of humanity. All that said, just as these Olympics were significant politically, they were also very significant competitively.
Beijing turnedout to be among the most memorable Olympics ever.One headline was anticipated before the Games began, and then verified here. For the firsttime since the fall of the Berlin Wall, an ongoing Olympic rivalry shapes up. In Beijing, the U.S. won 110 medals-the most it's ever won at a non-American Olympics. But China, second in the overall count, easily won the most golds here, and the most by any country since the old Soviet Union in1988. Many of China's triumphs went beyond excellence. Their perfection and precision, simply beautiful to behold. China is now a sports power with asophisticated state-supported sports system. They will be at or near the top of the medal list at London and beyond.
Meanwhile, the Americans had plenty to cheer about. Beach volleyball pairs both prevailing, Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson winning gold and winning hearts, the men's basketball team doing exactly what they set out to do-winning, yes-but also redeem and redefine the image and purpose of the U.S. program.These Games reached multiple crescendos. From the beginning, there was Michael Phelps, who now ranks among the very greatest Olympians ever and who is also now in the toptier of the best and most popular contemporary athletes in any sport-unheard of for a swimmer, until Phelps.
Just about the time Phelps left the pool, a Jamaican jet zoomed over the track. The sprints are supposed to be decidedby blinks of an eye, not by bolts of speed so astonishing that, like the spectators, the competitors can only marvel at the world's-- and history's--fastest man. More nations, 204, participated here than in any Games before.And more won medals, 87, than ever before as well.But beyond the medal podium, the Olympics remain a human panorama, with many also-- ran finishes and first-round eliminations, nonetheless representing epic personal stories, only appreciated by the participants themselves and their families,friends and countrymen.
Theses Games began with Zhang Yimou's stunningOpening Ceremony, so boldly conceived and brilliantly executed, that it seta standard for such occasions unlikely to be equaled. And tonight, with more theatrical touches, the curtain came down. So the people of the world came to Beijing, and the people of China extended their hands. You don't have tospeak a word of Mandarin to understand that.
I've been fortunate to be involved with many memorable Olympics, and in many ways, this has been the most memorable. In no small part, due to the efforts of the small army of people who worked tirelessly to bring these Games home to you. For thesecolleagues, I will always have enormous professional regard and personal gratitude.The names of these talented men and women accompany this final montage of the images of China and Olympic moments-moments we hope resonate with you as they have with us. Good night, this one last time, from China.

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场面宏大 第29届夏季北京奥运会闭幕式现场(组图)