Ozzy Osbourne closes Commonwealth Games Birmingham 2022 ceremony in surprise appearance
More than 1.3 million tickets were sold during the Games across 24 sports - with organisers estimating that more than 500,000 of those were snapped up by West Midlands residents who took the event to their hearts.
With the sun shining virtually throughout the week and a half in the West Midlands, the weather played its part too and that continued with a closing ceremony bathed in warm evening temperatures. "I think Birmingham should be so, so proud, they have put on an incredible Games," five-time Paralympic gold medallist Ellie Simmonds, from nearby Walsall, told BBC Sport.Closing ceremony to remember
Birmingham's multi-cultural heritage, beginning with the arrival of Caribbean and Asian communities into the city in the 1950s and 1960s, was celebrated through performances of Apache Indian's Boom Shack-A-Lak and Musical Youth's Pass The Dutchie.
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