Program
The games were formally closed by International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge calling them "magnificent" This again departed from former IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch's tradition of declaring each games "best ever" and continued Rogge's tradition of assigning each games their own identity in his comments.
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