British Olympic medallists at London 2012 may miss closing ceremony

By Jacquelin Magnay in Vancouver Published: 10:25PM GMT twenty-eight February 2010

Handover: On the eve of the shutting rite the arch senior manager of the Vancouver Games organising committee, John Furlong, passes the flame to Lord Coe Photo: GETTY IMAGES

The thought of carrying the stars of the Games lapse home betimes and miss the shutting rite celebration in the main track and the last night in the Olympic encampment has been floated by Lord Coe, the London organising cabinet chairman.

Coe pronounced he "instinctively believed that removing athletes behind to their communities and behind in to the networks and schools between the people that have upheld them is a unequivocally great idea"".

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Such a concept, believes Coe, would raise the experience of the live sites dotted around the country, and that have been an constituent piece of the success of the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games.

The London Games, if Coe gets his way, will be a brew of the operational and romantic successes of Beijing, Lillehammer, Barcelona and Sydney.

"As an organiser I wish to broach the Games as forensically programmed and executed as Beijing, but I wish the amiability and suggestion of Barcelona and the entertainment and the throng experience of Lillehammer," Coe said. "And I wish the people in London to suffer Olympic moments similar to in Darling Harbour [in Sydney] at 4 in the morning. I wish Londoners to think that they don"t wish the Games to finish.""

But mixing the cultured beauty of the city and the merriment of the celebrations with the required security measures costed at around �600 million will be a challenge.

He said: "All sporting events are underpinned by intelligent security, but we wish to keep business. We don"t wish people to travel in to the city that is effectively sealed down.

"But we do security well for big tellurian moments and that is a genuine value for us.""