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Rio athletic contest 2016: Spectacular closing ceremony as Olympic flag goes to Tokyo

The metropolis Olympic Games terminated with a spectacular carnival-inspired closing ceremony, and also the official relinquishing to 2020 hosts national capital.


The colourful ceremony, lasting virtually 3 hours, celebrated Brazil's arts and was control in a very wet Maracana.

Among the highlights were Tokyo's spectacular showcase and a vivacious carnival parade.

"These were a marvellous Olympic Games, in a very marvellous town," aforesaid International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach.

"Over the last sixteen days a united Brazil galvanized the globe, in troublesome times for all people, with its irresistible joy for keeps."

Bach formally closed the Games of the thirty first Olympiad when sixteen days of competition, that includes eleven,303 athletes from 206 nations and a exile team.

One of the most important cheers of the night came once Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appeared dressed as video game character Super Mario, rising out of a large inexperienced pipe within the structure.

The ceremony, watched by billions round the world, featured the parade of athletes and a dramatic ending of the Olympic flame.

Women's hockey captain Kate Richardson-Walsh carried the flag for excellent United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, World Health Organization finished the Games with sixty seven medals - their highest tally at a remote Olympic Games.

Super-heavyweight boxer Joe James Augustine Aloysius Joyce had earlier won Britain's final medallion of metropolis 2016 - a silver - as they finished second within the medallion table to the u.  s., prior to China.

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