The Rio Olympics wrapped up with a stunning closing ceremony as Tokyo was handed hosting duties for 2020.
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The closing ceremony, which lasted for about three hours, began with a similar kind of a countdown that took place in the opening ceremony, followed by cave-paintings display on Maracana Stadium’s floor.
This boy from Mangueira favela watched fireworks over Maracana Stadium. The city will then hand over the Olympic flag to Tokyo, site of the 2020 Summer Games, and extinguish the Olympic flame, burning since August 5, in a small, environmentally friendly cauldron.
The impressive medal haul – with 27 golds for athletes including Mo Farah, Nicola Adams, Laura Trott and Jason Kenny – made Rio Team GB’s most successful Olympics since 1908 and best ever “away” Games.
Team Great Britian are guaranteed to finish second ahead of China in the medal table at the Rio Olympics.
Pakistan’s decline in sports continued with the recent Olympics as the team was not able to notch even a single medal.
Women’s hockey captain Kate Richardson-Walsh carried the flag for Great Britain, who finished the Games with 67 medals – their highest tally at an overseas Olympics.
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The Maracana was turned into a street carnival as the ceremony celebrated Brazil’s art, music and dance.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) Shaking to samba and expressing a sense of longing with uniquely Brazilian words, Olympians and fans said goodbye to the Rio Games with one last big bash that was both revelatory and a sigh of relief.
A showcase of the Japanese capital included Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, dressed as computer game character Super Mario, popping out of a green pipe that he allegedly used as a shortcut to get from Tokyo to Rio.
The Olympic flame was extinguished by a rain shower, which then gave life to a large tree sculpture to symbolise rebirth. Let’s celebrate together the Games of Rio.
The governor of Tokyo, Yuriko Koike, accepted the flag from Bach and Rio mayor Eduardo Paes, signaling the end of the 2016 games and the transition. A country, where cricket is the major sport and the craze for other sports has a long gap to that for cricket, it took India long to win their first individual gold in Olympics. Brazilians were a happy lot as on the final few days, gold medals were won in men’s football and volleyball.
The 30-year-old Jamaican won his seventh, eighth and ninth gold medals by claiming the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay titles for the third Games in succession.
Michael Phelps capped his Olympic career in Rio, adding five gold medals to take his career haul to 23 – plus a silver, after his loss to Singapore’s Joseph Schooling, a former childhood fan of the USA swimmer.
Romania has won a total of 307 medals at the summer Olympics, 89 of which gold.
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Led by Sakshi Malik, the first Indian woman wrestler to win an Olympic medal whose bronze opened the medal count of two including a silver, the country’s contingent also braved the rains as she stood tall waving the tri-colour.
