The Paralympics are over! What did you think?

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Posted by Gerry Kiernan

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September 10th 2012 at 11:53

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The colourful closing ceremony concert at the Olympic Stadium described as a festival of fire and headlined by Coldplay ended what organisers say has been ‘the greatest Paralympic Games ever’.

Team GB sealed third place in the medal table rankings with 120 medals, 34 of which were golds. Russia just pipped Britain with two more golds to take second place, behind China who finished top with 231 medals.

In an inclusive touch, each participating country will take home one of the 200 copper petals that made up the Paralympic cauldron.

Did you know?

  • BT is the official communications services partner of the London 2012 Paralympic Games and has been a committed supporter of Paralympic sport for more than 20 years. So far BT is the only sponsor to have signed up for the 2016 Rio Games.
  • Every official London 2012 Paralympic Games photograph and sports report and millions of calls, emails, texts and tweets was carried over BT’s network
  • BT’s London 2012 network had the capacity to carry 60 Gbps of information – the equivalent of 3,000 photographs every second
  • More than 50,000 BT working hours were required to operate and support the 11 days of Paralympic competition.

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