Beckham, Paige and Beyonce for Olympics handover ceremony

Aug 23rd, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: Olympics, Sports
Beijing, Aug 23 (IANS) Football superstar David Beckham will kick the handover ball Sunday at the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics when China passes on the reins to Britain for the 2012 London Olympics.

London officials revealed plans and the details of the eight-minute slot, which includes cyclists Chris Hoy, Victoria Pendleton and Shanaze Reade.

Also performing at the ceremony will be musicians Jimmy Page and Leona Lewis, and singer Beyonce Knowles.

Three dance groups - the Royal Opera House, street dance theatre group Zoo Nation and CandoCo, a contemporary dance company of disabled and non-disabled dancers - will also put up a show, reported the China Daily.

London’s gig at the closing will start with a symbolic red London double-decker bus driving around the Bird’s Nest chased by Hoy, Pendleton and Reade on their bikes.

When the bus slows down near a symbolic bus stop, the three groups of dancers will surround it. Then the bus will transform itself, with the top half folding down in segments to show a hedge cut into shapes of the London skyline with landmarks such as the Tower Bridge, Battersea Power Station and the parliament, according to reports in British media.

English pop singer Leona Lewis will emerge from the roof to sing a song and then guitarist Page appears to perform with Lewis a new version of Led Zeppelin’s ‘Whole Lotta Love’.

As the song nears its end, Beckham will stand on another lift with a British girl and kick a football into the crowd, switching everyone’s attention to the handover party outside Buckingham Palace.

‘We will not compete with the (Chinese) ceremony, it will be simple, youthful, athletic, loud and proud like London, entertaining and fun,’ said Bill Morris, Culture, Events and Education chief of the 2012 London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG), at a media conference.

Chairman of the LOCOG Sebastian Coe said the handover will mark the start of Britain’s four-year ‘cultural Olympiad’.


The Closing Cermony will take place on August 24th, 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is definately false.

good for Bee ^^

Now I have a reason to watch the Olymics other than The hot guys in tight track clothes and speedos

...and Michelle Williams is officially pissed.

Disgusting.

SOLANGE plz

cool i hope its a medley! maybe her its combined with something new
and wow...with the haters

I'm curious ... what makes Leona a musician? Does she play instruments or write the music to her songs? Because, (as I suspect) she doesn't - which makes her just as much of a singer as Beyonce.

WHERE'S YOUR SOURCE AGAIN????????????
OH YEAH YOURSELF RIGHT???
YOUR GONNA FEEL REALLY STUPID WHEN YOU SEE BEYONCE, LEONA, & DAVID BECKHAM TOMORROW AT THE CLOSING CEREMONIES SO....
GET PREPARED HATER!!!!!!

Hahaha...I didnt catch that until you pointed it out...interesting...not sure if I believe this since its not being reported by anyone else, but it'd be cool if it was true.

Queen Bee is back

LMAO YOU'RE SUCH A DUMBASS...IM NOT A HATER IM ONE OF HER BIGGEST FANS YOU ****IN GOOFY. I JUS DONT WANNA GET MY HOPES HIGH LIKE I DID WITH THE BET AWARDS AND SHE DOESN'T PERFORM..SO IM WAITIN FOR CONFIRMATION.

YOU = WEIRD

Don't be going off asking people about their sources..shall I remind you about your failed thread on Beyonce's new album title?

Don't use all caps you idiot.

I don't plan to watch this, I'm all Olympicked out.

Atleast somebody agrees with me about that idiot.

Hmmm... I guess its because next Olympics will be in London in 2012.
And I guess its for like "handover" from China to UK. So david Beckham and Leona Lewis are like the "chosen presentative". I dont know, but I guess it is.
So switch Leona to Bee would make no sense at all. Next Olympic is going to be in US? No, right?

And I think Bee would perform thingy is rumors. Its just too sudden, isnt it?

I thought the next one would be here in Chicago.??

Yeah u are. Now STFU and get out of the queen's thread bye bye now. But yeah I can't wait 2 see it her performance!

LMAO @ that idiot adding Beyonce's name and yall getting worked up over it........ why is there no further mention of Beyonce in the article yet they talk about Leona and Led Zepplin?? Reading is fundamental.