Weekend Playlist: Olympic Sports 2

Weekend Playlist: Olympic Sports II

This is a second edition of the Olympic weekend playlist created by Adrian with help from guest curator walt4it looking at X/twitter selections (08/08/2024) with Songs that reference Olympic events, finals and (closing) ceremony.
The closing ceremony and end of the Paris Olympics was on 11th August 2024 where the Olympic flag was handed to Los Angeles for 2028!

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

Thanks to Jack for the spotified list

[Side 1] Going for Gold
Ocean Colour Scene - Riverboat Song 
Saw Doctors - To win just once
Shed 7 - Going for Gold
Vincent Delerm - La Natation Synchronisée
Radiohead - Climbing up the walls
Queen - Bicycle Race

[Side 2] Closing Ceremony
Gene - Olympian
Idlewild - Bronze Medal
U2 - Silver & Gold
UB40 - Champion
Semisonic - Closing Time 
Tina Arena - The Flame

[Bonus]
Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma 
Sound of Music - Climb every mountain
Dr Douglas & Dr Bucknor - Baton in hand

Long list

• Aerosmith - Dream On
• America - Horse with no name
• BA Robertson - Knocked It Off
• Bangles - Eternal Flame
• Belle & Sebastian - Stars of Track & Field
• Ben folds five - Boxing
• Cece Peniston - Finally
• Charlie Parker ft Miles Davies - Steeplechase
• Corrs - Breathless
• Courtney Barnett - Aqua Profunda
• Daft Punk - One more time
• Divine Comedy - Come Home Billy Bird
• Dr Tyron Douglas & Dr Wayne Bucknor - Baton in hand
• Europe - Final Countdown
• Gene - Olympian
• Hans Zimmer - Going for gold
• Idlewild - Bronze Medal
• Irene Cara - Breakdance
• Journey - Don't stop belivin'
• Kenny Rogers - Buried Treasure
• Marley's Ghost - Run on (for a long time)
• New Order - Ceremony
• Ocean Colour Scene - Riverboat Song
• Pavarotti - Nessun Dorma
• Phil Fuldner - The Final
• Queen - Bicycle Race
• Queen - We are the champions
• Radiohead - Climbing up the Walls
• Saw Doctors - To win just once
• Semisonic - Closing Time
• Shed Seven - Going for Gold
• Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer
• Sound of Music - Climb every mountain
• Sparks - Let's go surfing
• Spyridon samaras - Olympic Hymn
• Squeeze - Sunday Street
• T-Rex - Cosmic Dancer
• The Cult - Ceremony
• They might be giants - Circular Karate Chop
• Tiffany - I think we're alone now
• Tina Arena - The Flame
• Tom Petty - Even the losers
• UB40 - Champion
• U2 – Silver and Gold
• Underworld - Caliban’s Dream
• Vincent Delerm - La natation synchronisée
• XTC - Yacht Dance
• Yello - The Race