The 2012 Summer Olympics went out with last night’s star-studded, nostalgic Closing Ceremony. It’s been an emotional couple of weeks, welling up on a nightly basis while watching dreams come true from the comfort of our couches. To tie our Olympics coverage in a neat, hypnotizing bow, here’s a GIF wall of winners winning and inevitably treating us to victory dances, tears and triumphant cheers.
As we mentioned this morning, after seeing Usain Bolt‘s gold-medal celebration, we have certain high expectations for how we’d celebrate Olympic victory … in our heads. But there are all sorts of ways to express your joy over emerging as the greatest person IN THE WORLD at whatever it is you do. We figured we could group them into categories, for convenience sake, as we relive some triumphant — and totally gleeful — moments from the past week and look forward to more in the days to come.
1. By yourself:
Serena Williams caught some flak for doing her little victory dance after clenching her first ever singles gold on Saturday morning — the cute, joyful move has its origins in gang culture and is called the Crip Walk. But we’re pretty sure it’s been removed from that context by now, no?
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What do you do after defending your gold medal title and setting an Olympic record in the process? On your country’s independence day? OK, many Olympians would be going home and soaking in ice or something, if they have another event coming up. But not Usain Bolt. Even though he’s got a 200m race coming up on Tuesday, he partied it up on Sunday night (and into 3 a.m. on Monday) after winning his 100m in 9.63 seconds, the Daily Mail reports.
And the above picture is why we are so happy social media has entered the world of sports, because not only can we hear the stories from Hope Solo about the salacious goings on in Olympic village, but we can get a sneak peek at some of it, via Twitpics and Instagram. “A gaza we say hmmm mmm,” Bolt captioned his Instagram. We don’t need to understand Jamaican slang to get the gist of that. According to the Daily Mail, the three lovely ladies inexplicably repping the Westside in this pic are Jamina Roberts, Ulrika Agren and Isabella Gullden of the Swedish women’s handball team. They, at least have no more worries in the competition, after being knocked out by South Korea on Sunday.
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