Tokyo Olympics: Everything you need to know about the closing ceremony

These past two
weeks have been wonderfully incredible with people uniting from all over the
world for only one cause i.e their zeal and passion for sports. Mind
boggling performances have been
performed by athletes across the globe, at an event no one was sure would even
happen. Delayed for a year due to the COVID
pandemic, it was an Olympics like no other.

Athletes competed in mainly empty
stadiums, the athletes’ village was segregated into ‘hubs,’ masks were made
compulsory, and journalists interviewed their subjects from metres away.

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The opening ceremony, a quiet occasion
carried out in simple way in a cavernous empty stadium, foreshadowed the
peculiar nature of this year’s Tokyo Olympics 2020.

The closing ceremony will follow
current COVID-safe guidelines, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be amazing.

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The
closing ceremony will be held at Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on Sunday August 8 at
8pm Tokyo time, which is 9pm AEST.

The
men’s marathon, rhythmic gymnastics finals, women’s sprint final in cycling,
women’s gold medal basketball game, men’s gold medal water polo game, and
boxing finals in the women’s light, women’s middle, men’s light, and men’s
super heavy categories will all take place on the final day of competition.

You’ll
be able to catch all the closing ceremony on either Channel 7 or 7Mate.

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For
those looking to stream the closing ceremony, the 7 Plus app will have you
covered. There
won’t be many large set pieces, like at the Olympics Opening Ceremony. The
closing ceremony’s theme is “Worlds We Share.”

It
is a tradition for the remaining athletes at the Olympics to march in a parade
similar to the opening ceremony.One
of the last day’s events – traditionally, the marathon, the cherry on top of
each Olympic Games’ final day of competition – is honoured with a medal
ceremony.

Another traditional part of the closing
ceremony is the handing over of the next Olympic destination, which is done to
the soundtrack of the Greek national anthem in a nod to the Games’ origins in
Athens.In 2024, the Summer Olympics will be
hosted in Paris.

The Olympic flag will be lowered and
handed to the IOC President, who will subsequently hand it to an official
representing the next host city, Paris, at the Tokyo closing ceremony.

Except for a few dignitaries, officials,
and the remaining athletes, there will be no spectators at the Olympic Stadium,
as there were at the opening ceremony And like the opening ceremony, a
significant part of the event has been pre-recorded.Video will be mixed with
live performance. The final part of the closing ceremony is the extinguishing
of the Olympic flame – this time, to be relit again in three, rather than four
years’ time.