The details of the Tokyo Olympics closing ceremony are closely guarded before it begins. But based on the closing ceremonies of the recent past, we can still safely predict some of what we’ll see starting at 8 p.m. Tokyo time on Sunday night (7 a.m. Eastern). Unlike in the opening ceremony, when athletes march in by country, they file into the stadium en masse at the closing ceremony, symbolically indicating that we are all one people. At these Games, for pandemic-related reasons, athletes are being told to leave Japan 48 hours after their last event. Samba in Rio de Janeiro, Britpop in London, the music of the host nation normally features heavily in the closing ceremony.

Source: New York Times August 08, 2021 08:56 UTC