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August 30, 2004
The Closing Ceremony

Dancers perform as traditional Greek harvesters around a spiral wheatfield made up of 45,000 individually 'planted' stalks at the Olympic Stadium.

In Greek festivities, wheat symbolises the fertility of the earth, the awakening of life that arises from death.

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