Closing Ceremony Highlights: Tokyo Fetes Olympic Athletes With Music and Spectacle A final medal ceremony, a handoff to Paris and the extinguishing of the Olympic flame mark the Games’ finale. The Olympic flame was extinguished at the end of the closing ceremony. Save the masks on the participants, the closing ceremony mostly avoided the coronavirus pandemic. At least with the closing ceremony, they got a hint, “chotto,” as we say in Japanese, of Tokyo’s magic. “It was so surprising to me at first, thinking about the athletes’ feelings,” said Yoneda, who was on duty at the closing ceremony.

Source: International New York Times August 07, 2021 11:23 UTC