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# I said you should get a round of applause. | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
# I think you need a # When you were born you should have | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
had a standing ovation # They didn't realise what was | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
really in the room, they were looking at a star like a rocket to | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
the moon # You should get a round of applause | :01:25. | :01:33. | |
# I think you really need a round of applause | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
# People clap now # I said, you should get a round of | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
applause # People clap your hands | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
# Before I hit it like a hurricane # Let me pay my respects now | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
# Meet me in the beautiful place # I get the scene to whatever your | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
tastes # As you arrive, I see your car | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
pulling up slowly outside and you step into the room through the big | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
double doors, first thing I'm going to give you is a round of applause. | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
# People clap now # I said, you should get a round of | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
applause # People clap your hands | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
# I think you need a... # A round of applause, applause# | :02:11. | :02:21. | |
306 gold medals have been handed out across 28 different sports and Rio | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
is preparing to say farewell to the watching world, farewell to 11,000 | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
athletes and the two Steves have joined me here in the studio, Steve | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
Cram and Steve Redgrave. You can tell they're Olympians because they | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
battled through one of the worst storms we've had, it's the worst | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
since we've been here. Due get blown around? I stupidly didn't put | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
anything, no coat, no jacket, north-east lad, typical. It's only | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
just dried out. You're rock hard, it's all right. Absolutely. I was | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
here earlier and went down the road for a pizza with Matt Pinsent and | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
battled to get back. It has been blowing a gale. We understand that | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
at the Maracana, further inland, it's much less stormy than it is | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
here. Fingers crossed. We're building up to the closing ceremony. | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
But just bring you up to date on a couple of things that happened | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
earlier today. Joe Joyce was in the boxing ring for Great Britain | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
winning the last medal. Sadly not winning the last gold. He couldn't | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
emulate Anthony Joshua's feats of four years ago. The Frenchman was | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
too good. The 30-year-old Joyce lost out on a split decision. He now | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
intends to turn pro and Britain finished with a gold, silver and | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
bronze from the boxing ring. In the very last event of these | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
Olympics, the USA added yet another gold to their medal haul in the | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
men's basketball final. They won their third consecutive Olympic | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
title, dominating Serbia, nearly breaking the 100 points mark. 96-66, | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
the 15th Olympic title and a double up as the American women won the | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
basketball title yesterday as well. The final, final tables medals table | :04:04. | :04:04. | |
looks like this: Other nation that's have done well, | :04:05. | :04:32. | |
the host nation Brazil, it's their best Games. Jamaica six gold medals, | :04:33. | :04:42. | |
all of them on the track. Three of them involving Usain Bolt. New | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
Zealand, their best Olympics ever with 18 total medals. Various | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
countries winning their first ever Gold Medal, including Fiji who took | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
gold in the Rugby 7's. It has been an incredible Olympics for a lot of | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
nations. This for Great Britain, the most successful ever, which I don't | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
think anyone was predicting. No. I think to be honest, I was talking to | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
Liz Nichol from UK Sport, I think she has been very up front, there | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
was a range. The media tended to report the lower end of that range, | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
48. Secretly, actually not secretly, reasonably open about somewhere in | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
the 60 range would have been a very, very good performance. To have | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
exceeded that, 67, phenomenal. Really phenomenal. Russia effect | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
perhaps, a little bit. Only a little bit. China have been down. They | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
haven't had a good Games here. Would it be naive to start to think that | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
the world balance reorders itself with drug testing being more | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
thorough? It's an interesting thing. What's really happening is the super | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
powers are not as super as they used to be. That spread is going around a | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
lot more. If you actually look down the table to how many countries are | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
winning gold medals, I think there's more than there's ever been before. | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
More countries winning medals before. Where it used to be of 30 | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
years ago, the dominance between the Soviet Union and America, and no-one | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
else get a look-in, is that their totals are coming down, especially | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
on the gold medals, that's being spread around a bit more. That's a | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
valid point. Also, it's a very valid point, 80-odd countries have won | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
medals here. 42 countries won medals in athletics. The spread is greater. | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
We have a great system, but you don't have to have a great system to | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
win one medal. That's what's happening. This maybe needs looked | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
at. We have a lot of different sports to what we had 20 years ago. | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
In the Games? In the Games. And more to come. That traditional superpower | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
sport emphasis has shifted. We've gone with it. We've been very good | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
at going with that shift, if you like. We've been able to target | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
certain sports. We've done very well, as you say, gold medals in | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
more sports than even the USA. Some sports we don't even really compete | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
in, handball, volleyball. You take those out, we've got a very high | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
strike rate of winning medals. I think it's 70-odd per cent. Good | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
stats. I'm impressed. But those stats are why we're winning because | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
we look at it carefully and we look at where we can get gains and win. | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
Quiz question: Who won Great Britain's first medal of these | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
Games? Peaty. Correct. Let's look at some of the triumphs from the | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
British athletes at Rio 2016. COMMENTATOR: Adam Peaty takes | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
Olympic gold for Great Britain. A wonderful world record. The time oh, | :07:45. | :07:53. | |
my goodness me! Mark Cavendish has an Olympic medal. | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
The United States have it, Jamaica took the silver and Great Britain | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
have the bronze medal. Wales' Jazz Carlin in Silver Medal | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
position. I honestly can't believe. It I'm on the edge of tears. The | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
Gold Medal goes to Great Britain! The Olympic champions again. Laura | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
Trott is Britain's most successful female Olympian of all time. | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
Jason Kenny's got it. Seen a through come through here. They take the | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
bronze medal here -- Ed Lynning takes the bronze medal here. Jo | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
Ohuruogu is holding on to take the bronze. Well done Christine, Emily, | :08:35. | :08:45. | |
Eilidh and Aniyka. Chris Froome pulled it out at the | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
end. He dug deep. It is gold for Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark. It's | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
awesome! There is a medal here for Becky James, it's silver. Can she | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
get it on the line. I think she can. Great Britain win the silver. | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
Stephen Scott takes the bronze medal in the double trap competition. | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
Gold, they've smashed the world record. It's silver to Siobhan-Marie | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
O'Connor. Finally he gets a chance to enjoy this moment. Giles Scott | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
has the gold. Will it be Britain or Australia? It certainly will be | :09:24. | :09:24. | |
Great Britain! One, two, three, go. | :09:25. | :09:46. | |
They've done it! They have done it. Daley and Goodfellow are bronze | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
medallists. I pounced on Dan at the end. I didn't realise we were going | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
backwards until we were in the water. I went with. It I don't care | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
any more. COMMENTATOR: You can see how much it | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
means to her. She really focussed well. Bryony Page is an Olympic | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
Silver Medallist. The Welsh wonder strikes gold. Jade | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
Jones becomes the two times Olympic champion. | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
Really lovely steps, niedge rhythm. Britain have got silver. Nile Wilson | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
makes history for Great Britain as the first ever gymnast to medal at | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
the Olympics on high bar. I'm so happy. I know everyone back home | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
will be so proud. I want to say, Joanna, mum, dad - we did it. Jack | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
Laugher and Chris Mears... One, two, three... Go. Yes! So good. It is | :10:36. | :10:43. | |
gold! Pure gold, the boys are in tears. | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
It's a Silver Medal, perfect performance from Lutalo Muhammad. | :10:49. | :10:57. | |
A bronze medal for the British pair Chris and Marcus. At least you can't | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
say anything. Amy Tinkler, the youngest member of Team GB. She | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
twisted and tumbled her way to that bronze medal. Bianca Walkden has | :11:10. | :11:18. | |
shown the tenacity. She battled for that, Olympic Games bronze | :11:19. | :11:20. | |
medallist. One more to go for jaw lure. What | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
colour Med -- Jack Laugher, what colour medal will it be? Yes silver! | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
Nick Skelton and Big Star take the gold for Great Britain. It's | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
something that has been a dream. One wonders whether dreams do come true, | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
but they have today. Max Whitlock takes the first medal | :11:39. | :11:50. | |
in the all around final for 108 years, what a result for Great | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
Britain! And it's Joe Clarke, the | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
23-year-old, that is the Olympic champion. Can't quite believe it. My | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
words are going to come out in a big bleur. Salary O'Connor gets the | :12:05. | :12:14. | |
medal. -- Sally. They go away Olympic Silver Medallists. Mum and | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
dad, I promise, I'll never put you through it again. David Florence and | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
Richard Hounslow another plate of silver. | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
Another throw of the dice for Sophie Hitchon. It is big enough. Sophie | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
Hitchon has saved her best for last. They are fearless. They are without | :12:35. | :12:45. | |
equal. They are history makers. Great Britain's glover and K is it | :12:46. | :12:53. | |
ann -- and stanning. Joshua but but has emerged as the | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
star of the boxing ring. Incredible discipline and power that's what you | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
need to win a race. They are the Olympic champions. They've done it | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
in style again. It's a one-two, a gold and silver for the BrownLee | :13:09. | :13:16. | |
brothers. Heath and Schofield believed where others might not have | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
done. They have the Silver Medal. Scores! That's the golden goal! | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
Great Britain have won the Olympic Gold Medal. Great Britain in the | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
men's eight are the Olympic champions and that has a fantastic | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
ring about it. Just most amazing thing, guys, I'm | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
speechless. The battle continues between Stanford and Holland. The | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
bronze to Vicky Holland of Great Britain. What a race in the women's | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
triathlon. Absolutely sensational. The first time that Great Britain | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
have won an Olympic medal in the women's eight. | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
Gold goes to Liam Heath. He will leave Rio as the Olympic champion. | :14:01. | :14:08. | |
Terrific variety to this point. Nicola Adams lets out a triumphant | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
roar. I'm now officially the most accomplished amateur boxer we've | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
ever had, like ever. It takes a lot to win an Olympic medal, especially | :14:17. | :14:18. | |
to be able to do it twice. It really has been the most | :14:19. | :14:32. | |
extraordinary Games and you watch that again and you think, my word, | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
it seems like it's gone by in a dreamlike sequence. I enjoyed it, to | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
be honest I haven't seen half of that, I've read about them and heard | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
about them but being in the athletics stadium for the last ten | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
days, I can't wait to get home and catch up and watch it all. On you | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
could come you can. Earlier, I was asking, we were fighting over the | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
hockey as our highlights and Kate Richardson-Walsh reminded as she | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
will be carrying the flag tonight at the closing ceremony. The hockey | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
captain. What's your highlight? I'm biased, I guess. We had a great | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
athletics programme. Danny Care winning the 400 metres, da Silva, | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
the brilliant -- Brazilian pole vault, everything got wrapped up in | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
that, there were good things, the brewing wrapped up in it, and Bolt, | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
but I have to come back to Mo, he is ours, as it were. You might have | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
this, I don't know if you've had this with the robbers, but we've | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
watched Mo since he was a kid, eight cheeky little kids -- with the | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
rowers. Little Rascal, actually. I remember him coming to Brendan and I | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
come in the junior team, they'd dyed their hair, including Mo, I think it | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
was the instigator, and like all ran badly. Gave them a bit of... He | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
didn't take it very well. After that, he used to come up and he'd | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
always kind of want to come and chat, he knew he had something about | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
him even as a kid. He mentioned it last night, I'm such a competitor, I | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
hate losing. That was in him when he was very young. But he used to lose. | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
He used to win a lot, used to lose. So watching him develop as an | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
athlete and a person, the way he controls, people at the top of their | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
game body else, don't they? You don't often get that, but Bolt does | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
it and Mo does it so well and he did it again last night. He was tired. | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
It was quite tired. Just going back to the 10,000 metres, he fell over | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
and got back up again and still won. He was carrying an injury from that | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
fall, I spoke to him this morning and I used a mental home in the | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
build-up to the 88 games and I said you were hobbling afterwards and you | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
struggled in the heat of the 5000 and he said, you are spot on, I was | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
dropping, I wasn't at my best. But he would still be able to produce | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
the best and still win. At the altitude training camp, we were | :17:08. | :17:15. | |
having lunch one day, Mo said, what are the Kenyans going to do, we were | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
chatting, I said there's no way you can be beaten unless they trip you | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
up and it was a joke. We even said they can probably trip you up in the | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
last lap but and you can still win. He nearly tripped in the heats of | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
the 5000. In the 5000 final he was superb, absolutely superb. There was | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
a little moment you didn't see there, by the way Andrew Butchart, | :17:36. | :17:43. | |
oh... He got promoted to force. Two of the guys got reinstated, he went | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
back to sixth. A big personal best. There was a moment at the bell when | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
the Ethiopians tried to get past him, which is what you really should | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
try to do if you are going to beat him, the aggressive bit of Mo came | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
out, we see him in full flow, he said, you're not getting in here and | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
from that point he had won. There was 390 metres to go and he makes us | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
work for the win as well as he works for the win, but phenomenal. We | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
won't see him on the track again and another thoroughly big. We could see | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
him on the road. This is something cyclists have done. Sir Bradley | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
Wiggins has done this, track, road, back to the track again, and you | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
were there when he made history. One thing I wanted to go and see was | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
these guys with Bradley and the team. It was truly amazing. The | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
Australians, I was with Chris Hoy down in the centre of the track when | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
they were racing, he said the Australians have gone off too hard, | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
they'll never last, we will catch them, and they didn't, they just | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
kept on going. We started pinching them back, pinching them back, and | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
it was an incredible atmosphere. All four of them incredible cyclists. | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
And he wanted to join you on five gold medals but he had a different | :18:58. | :19:05. | |
attitude on the podium. This is so Wiggo. It's like Daley Thompson | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
whistling in 1984. I think he does it as a way of not crying, as a way | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
of almost bursting the balloon. Possibly, it's one of the things I | :19:16. | :19:17. | |
of almost bursting the balloon. Possibly, it's one of the things I | :19:18. | :19:18. | |
love about him. He does things you don't expect him to do. He is a | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
little bit off the wall. But it's that personality and in some ways, | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
the way we all train, the way they pair, it's making -- the way they | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
prepare, it's making you a robot, its scientific, making small gains, | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
and he does something like that. An amazing personality, eight medals in | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
total, a British record. Jason Kenny equalling Chris Hoy on six gold | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
medals. That progression of excellence and the new stars that | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
have come up and joined in that list is, I think, really extraordinary. | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
If you look at Sir Chris Hoy, he's out there, level with Jason Kenny, | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
only in front by virtue of the alphabet and he's very thrilled | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
about that. Bradley Wiggins goes to the top of those on five. Surely | :20:06. | :20:13. | |
he's got Sir? S comes before. I'm getting fed up with cyclists! Yes, | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
anyway, so Ben Ainslie is there an Sir Matthew Pinsent, the cyclists | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
are getting fed up with the rowers. Paul Rob Miller Vidic was a swimmer | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
and water polo player. In the early 20th century. Laura Trott is the | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
first woman on that list, she is young and could definitely do | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
another four years and I'm pretty certain wants to. I hope she does. | :20:41. | :20:42. | |
And Jason certain wants to. I hope she does. | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
And Jason as well. We will see them moving up that list very, very | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
quickly and four years' time. When we are looking forward to Japan, you | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
touched on it earlier in terms of mentioning new sports, what is going | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
to be the British policy, the British Wallasey to surfing, but | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
also to karate, which one would think would suit the Japanese in | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
particular, to climbing, to skateboarding and, what is the fifth | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
one? Baseball and softball, that's it. We might not off if we took the | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
last two first, we've tended in team sports where we don't have | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
traditions, so volleyball, handball for instance, basketball, we try to | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
get a programme going, we have tended to go OK, we've got too far | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
to go in those sports, those are big programmes with one medal or two | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
medals, so we look for when we get best results. So where we are | :21:38. | :21:39. | |
looking at multidiscipline sports, where there are various medals | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
available such as rowing, athletics, cycling, sailing, etc, that's where | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
we've tended over the years to kind of think well, that's where we will | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
try and focus. I am not an expert on skateboarding, nor sports climbing. | :21:57. | :21:58. | |
I would suspect things like karate, we've got a good line through judo | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
and taekwondo etc, I would suspect... We have history there, we | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
have won World Championships that karate. I haven't heard recently, | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
but there is a pathway of sorts. What Steve is saying is totally true | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
on the team sports. There's so much investment within their round the | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
problem with the basketball is anybody who is anybody -- any good | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
in basketball, they go to the States and it's difficult to keep a team | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
together. You are trying to get individuals back, trying to get a | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
team together at the last minute and you can get reasonably good results, | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
but you can't get consistent results. They have to be in Major | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
leagues, playing all the time, and that is one of the downfalls with | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
those particular sports. It will be interesting to see the new sports | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
coming in. We haven't done too badly at the two introduced here, golf and | :22:48. | :22:55. | |
rugby sevens. Tokyo will bring no Usain Bolt, which will definitely | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
feature in Eddie Butler's fabulous review of these Games. | :23:02. | :23:09. | |
Never had there been an Olympic setting quite like this. The soaring | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
splendours of Rio. In contrast to what might think these Games. -- | :23:17. | :23:24. | |
think these Games. Brazilian politics in limbo, an economy in | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
recession, crime on the streets, fills in the waters, Zika virus. The | :23:30. | :23:41. | |
host nation wary of all this. The Brazilian boo would ring around Rio, | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
if any Brazilians turned up to watch, that is. Then came the | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
imported difficulties, the Olympic zone pet problems, the Russians, | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
half here, half band, drugs are never far away, and an alleged | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
ticketing scam, arrests of the Irish, you couldn't make it up. | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
Except Ryan Lochte did. The boxing judges... Again. Michael Conlon | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
eliminated after judging which just leaves me scratching my head. The | :24:13. | :24:13. | |
spirit of fair play. Competition within the spirit of | :24:14. | :24:25. | |
peaceful cooperation. And then there were the problems born of bad luck, | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
the crashes of competition. And as if the Olympics didn't have enough | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
testing to do, there was gender to define. Unathletic gift Caster | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
Semenya must sometimes feel weighing like a burden. -- and athletic gift. | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
No, it was not going to be easy. But if a couple of bullets came out | :24:44. | :25:02. | |
of the favelas, so too did Rafaela Silva, straight out of the City of | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
God slums, and Rio found it had reason to cheer. He would not be | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
denied. MUSIC | :25:13. | :25:31. | |
Home crowd, homeboy, higher than ever, better than ever. And the mood | :25:32. | :25:41. | |
changed. There was fun to be had. BBC! This is magical. There was a | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
new question to be asked and the betrothed pair on bikes winning | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
enough gold to make wedding rings for every couple in China. This was | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
the only fever, gold fever in the velodrome. There had been a pre-Rio | :25:57. | :26:04. | |
appraisal. These Games could never be as good as London 2012. Well, it | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
was time for a reappraisal. Great Britain's Max Whitlock is the floor | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
Olympic champion! Its hero time. Scores, that is the golden goal. | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
Andy Murray is a double Olympic gold-medallist. Nicola Adams let out | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
a triumphant roar. GB medals were coming in at a pace and volume that | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
had China worried about being overtaken and humiliated by some | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
isolated little rocks off mainland Europe. Fiji, specs in the split -- | :26:37. | :26:45. | |
specs in the Pacific, won their first medal ever in the rugby | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
sevens. Puerto Rico, half the side of Fiji, won their first medal. | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
Puerto Rico with the territory of the USA but those states can let | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
their Caribbean island keep that gold, they had enough of their own, | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
top of the medal table with a familiar cast of winners and some | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
new superstars. A true champion and a leader of a great team. That's not | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
the last you will see your Simone Biles. The Americans couldn't beat | :27:11. | :27:18. | |
this man. Nobody could. He can't be a one-man saviour of the Olympics, | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
even if sometimes it feels that way. These were his final acts. Heerkens | :27:23. | :27:33. | |
Usain Bolt, Bolt is going to take it. | :27:34. | :27:40. | |
Usain Bolt gets it. His final bursts of sub ten and sub 20 seconds. | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
# Weimann man # yes and #. | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
He will be a hard act to follow, even though that's what everybody | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
has been doing in the the last three Olympics. He went out in style, not | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
though breaking his own world record in the 200 he loves best. Some | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
things he had to leave to others. One of the greatest pieces of | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
distance running you have ever seen, the new world record to Ayane of | :28:09. | :28:16. | |
Ethiopia. Each new distance, each new time, lifting the Games. It's a | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
new world record! And lifting what haunted Brazil, | :28:20. | :28:27. | |
atonement for the last World Cup in the sport that truly matters here. | :28:28. | :28:37. | |
Neymar - scores! 200 million Brazilians scream with delight. | :28:38. | :28:49. | |
It leaves the legacy question - what becomes of all this? There's no | :28:50. | :28:56. | |
doubt that some of Olympic Rio will rust and fade, reclaimed by a city | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
that plays by its own rules, a city that the Games never came close to | :29:01. | :29:06. | |
taming. Rio may struggle to feel any long-term glow from all this. But | :29:07. | :29:16. | |
whilst the Games were on, while the giant soared in the city that soars, | :29:17. | :29:21. | |
Rio was as Rio looked, imperfect, perfect. For a fortnight in the | :29:22. | :29:34. | |
August of 2016, the most beautiful place in the world. | :29:35. | :29:44. | |
A proper, proper shiver down my backment beautifully written, | :29:45. | :29:46. | |
beautifully delivered. Usain Bolt has written his last message to Rio | :29:47. | :29:59. | |
and he's written it in Portuguese. It means, that's not very g, I don't | :30:00. | :30:06. | |
speak Portuguese. It is, we came, we saw, we conquered, Rio I have a | :30:07. | :30:10. | |
special love for you. It will have a special place in his heart. This was | :30:11. | :30:14. | |
his swan song. Delighted hopefully he's going to be in London next | :30:15. | :30:18. | |
year. From an Olympic stage, that's it. A massive void for our sport. I | :30:19. | :30:25. | |
think for the Olympics as well, it's not just athletics that will miss | :30:26. | :30:28. | |
him. The whole of the world of sport will miss him when he finally goes. | :30:29. | :30:35. | |
The Olympic movement will miss him. For me, that was a fantastic piece | :30:36. | :30:41. | |
from Eddie, and you know, Bolt almost... Rio is a great place to go | :30:42. | :30:47. | |
out. Rio, that kind of idea of it being a beautiful, and he's a | :30:48. | :30:51. | |
beautiful runner, there's a thing about Bolt which we all fall in love | :30:52. | :30:55. | |
with, his character. It's the way he does it, in his way. Rio's a bit | :30:56. | :30:59. | |
like that. They've done it their way. It is a beautiful place. We'll | :31:00. | :31:03. | |
all remember it. It has been a wonderful setting. The Lagoa, never | :31:04. | :31:08. | |
seen anything like it. Some of the back drops for the sports | :31:09. | :31:13. | |
incredible. Especially my sport of rogue, with Christ The Redeemer and | :31:14. | :31:16. | |
the beautiful lake and all the houses around in the back drop, | :31:17. | :31:20. | |
absolutely stunning. The water wasn't always at its best. We just | :31:21. | :31:25. | |
had a real rattle to the studio. You can understand why rowing had to be | :31:26. | :31:28. | |
cancelled a few days. The waves out there sailing would be cancelled for | :31:29. | :31:33. | |
too much wind. We are heading towards the Closing Ceremony now, | :31:34. | :31:36. | |
where we hope it is less windy than here on the coast. The Opening | :31:37. | :31:40. | |
Ceremony had a theme of regeneration and re-invention. I suspect the | :31:41. | :31:44. | |
closing will be party, party all the way. Can't wait to see all the | :31:45. | :31:48. | |
athletes coming in, with thanks to Steve Cram and Steve Redgrave, who | :31:49. | :31:53. | |
contributed so much in terms what have they did on the field of play, | :31:54. | :31:56. | |
let us now wish them goodbye, farewell and let's hope they have | :31:57. | :32:00. | |
fun. The Closing Ceremony will be described for you by Andrew Cotter | :32:01. | :32:06. | |
and Hazel Irvin. Good evening, 24 hours after Neymar | :32:07. | :32:11. | |
and Brazil's football win here in the Maracana Stadium, we back again | :32:12. | :32:15. | |
for a celebration of this country's most golden Games ever, seven golds | :32:16. | :32:20. | |
for them is the best. Of course, of the efforts of all the athletes over | :32:21. | :32:24. | |
the last incredible fortnight in this breath takingly beautiful city, | :32:25. | :32:28. | |
perhaps and probably the most spectacular Olympic stage ever. It's | :32:29. | :32:34. | |
a stage that's set to stage one more final performance this evening. | :32:35. | :32:37. | |
Andrew, I know you're looking forward to it too. A Closing | :32:38. | :32:41. | |
Ceremony never has quite the same feel as an opening, the eager | :32:42. | :32:44. | |
anticipation, excitement replaced by a more relaxed sell brigs and | :32:45. | :32:50. | |
reflection, still plenty to entertain you with and I'm sure try | :32:51. | :32:54. | |
to explain as well as we say goodbye to the Games of Rio. Thankfully, the | :32:55. | :33:00. | |
weather has, I think, improved. It was borderering on the apocalyptic | :33:01. | :33:05. | |
an hour ago. Howling a gale and torrential rain. It seems to have | :33:06. | :33:08. | |
calmed a bit. It has. They declared a state of emergency in some of the | :33:09. | :33:14. | |
favelas around the sit why with the high winds and tides. Our Brazilian | :33:15. | :33:20. | |
friends are showing their tears for the end of the Games. The hypnotic | :33:21. | :33:26. | |
mirror sculpture, that astonishingly beautiful flame sits there in the | :33:27. | :33:34. | |
Maracana and we're just about ready. Anthony Howe's sculpture there | :33:35. | :33:36. | |
amplifying the flame and radiating that energy out. Sadly, it's set to | :33:37. | :33:44. | |
be skinning wished tonight. We will -- extinguished tonight. Our old | :33:45. | :33:50. | |
friend, the aviation pioneer from the Opening Ceremony. Celebrating | :33:51. | :33:54. | |
winning a contest in Paris at the start of the Twentieth Century with | :33:55. | :33:56. | |
a friend and complained about having to take his pocket watch out to | :33:57. | :34:04. | |
check his timings. His friend was Cartier who made him a watch to wear | :34:05. | :34:10. | |
on his wrist. To underline how time flies, he's back. | :34:11. | :34:21. | |
The much larger clock, we're again giving the projections on the floor | :34:22. | :34:27. | |
of the Maracana. The larger clock ticks down and sell us when it is | :34:28. | :34:29. | |
time to start this Closing Ceremony. The first section called Olympic | :34:30. | :35:23. | |
wings, welcoming us to the ceremony to celebrate the diversity of the | :35:24. | :35:29. | |
wildlife and land marks around Rio de Janeiro. This music is being | :35:30. | :35:42. | |
performed by Barbatuques. This was for Rio 2. | :35:43. | :36:08. | |
Some of the land marks are formed, the Arches of Lapa, built in the | :36:09. | :36:17. | |
19th century to bring fresh water to the Carioca river. You can now take | :36:18. | :36:19. | |
a tram across to it. Christ The Redeemer looks down upon | :36:20. | :36:45. | |
this amazing scene for the past two weeks. | :36:46. | :38:04. | |
Next to Shugarloaf, considered one of the world's great natural | :38:05. | :38:10. | |
beauties. It stands out in thousand's of people's photos and | :38:11. | :38:14. | |
crowds of tourists wait to ride the cable car up to the mountain to be | :38:15. | :38:18. | |
closer to all the wildlife that lives there. An astonishing place, | :38:19. | :38:22. | |
right on the edge of the bay. Your guess as good as mine on that | :38:23. | :38:57. | |
one. The first time that the Games have | :38:58. | :39:33. | |
come to a tropical country and an appropriate and totally tropical | :39:34. | :39:41. | |
revamping of the Olympic rings. Usually blue, yellow, black, green, | :39:42. | :39:44. | |
red, representing five of the continents. But here, multicoloured. | :39:45. | :40:10. | |
The president of the IOC, Thomas Bach, with a cheery hello to us all. | :40:11. | :40:19. | |
We'll be hearing from him later. Carinhoso, considered the most | :40:20. | :40:37. | |
beautiful of Brazilian songs of all time. | :40:38. | :41:03. | |
# Ah se tu soubesses como sou tao carinhosa | :41:04. | :41:10. | |
# Eu sei que tu nao fugirias mais de mim | :41:11. | :41:21. | |
# Vem sentir o calor dos labios meus a procura dos teus | :41:22. | :41:43. | |
# Vem matar essa paixao que me devora o coracao | :41:44. | :41:52. | |
This is 78-year-old Martinho da Vila with his three daughters and his | :41:53. | :42:17. | |
granddaughter here. # Eu sei que tu nao | :42:18. | :42:28. | |
fugirias mais de mim # Vem matar essa paixao | :42:29. | :43:07. | |
que me devora o coracao Time for the national and of Brazil, | :43:08. | :43:42. | |
which will be sung by children, representing the country's 27 states | :43:43. | :43:48. | |
but the -- 26 states, plus the Federal district. | :43:49. | :43:54. | |
# Ouviram do Ipiranga as margens placidas | :43:55. | :43:56. | |
# De um povo heroico o brado retumbante | :43:57. | :43:58. | |
# E o sol da Liberdade, em raios fulgidos | :43:59. | :44:02. | |
# Brilhou no ceu da Patria nesse instante | :44:03. | :44:05. | |
# Se o penhor dessa igualdade Conseguimos conquistar com braco | :44:06. | :44:12. | |
# Desafia o nosso peito a propria morte | :44:13. | :44:21. | |
# O Patria amada Idolatrada | :44:22. | :44:24. | |
# Salve Salve Brasil, um sonho intenso, | :44:25. | :44:27. | |
# Um raio vivido, De amor e de esperanca a terra | :44:28. | :44:31. | |
# Se em teu formoso ceu, risonho e limpido, | :44:32. | :44:36. | |
# A imagem do Cruzeiro resplandece Gigante pela propria natureza | :44:37. | :44:44. | |
# Es belo, es forte, impavido colosso, | :44:45. | :44:49. | |
# E o teu futuro espelha essa grandeza | :44:50. | :44:53. | |
# Terra adorada Entre outras mil | :44:54. | :44:57. | |
# Es tu, Brasil, O Patria amada | :44:58. | :44:59. | |
# Dos filhos deste solo Es mae gentil | :45:00. | :45:02. | |
# Deitado eternamente em berco esplendido | :45:03. | :45:11. | |
# Ao som do mar e a luz do ceu profundo | :45:12. | :45:15. | |
# Fulguras, o Brasil florao da America | :45:16. | :45:19. | |
# Iluminado ao sol do Novo Mundo Do que a terra mais garrida | :45:20. | :45:27. | |
# Teus risonhos, lindos campos tem mais flores | :45:28. | :45:31. | |
# "Nossos bosques tem mais vida" "Nossa vida" no teu seio | :45:32. | :45:37. | |
# "Mais amores" O Patria amada | :45:38. | :45:41. | |
# Idolatrada, Salve Salve | :45:42. | :45:43. | |
# Brasil, de amor eterno seja simbolo O labaro que ostentas | :45:44. | :45:48. | |
# E diga o verde-louro dessa flamula | :45:49. | :45:52. | |
# Paz no futuro e gloria no passado | :45:53. | :45:59. | |
# Mas se ergues da justica a clava forte | :46:00. | :46:03. | |
# Veras que um filho teu nao foge a luta | :46:04. | :46:07. | |
# Nem teme, quem te adora, a propria morte | :46:08. | :46:11. | |
# Terra adorada Entre outras mil | :46:12. | :46:15. | |
# Es tu, Brasil, O Patria amada | :46:16. | :46:18. | |
# Dos filhos deste solo Es mae gentil | :46:19. | :46:21. | |
The children, the flag brought in by a famous figure. Tennis legend Maria | :46:22. | :46:41. | |
Bueno, a former world number one, renowned for her graceful style of | :46:42. | :46:45. | |
play as her winning record, Maria Bueno. Is just about time to meet | :46:46. | :46:51. | |
the heroes of the Games. But our famous figure of Brazilian | :46:52. | :46:54. | |
entertainment being portrayed, Carmen Miranda. If you got have no | :46:55. | :47:04. | |
idea who she was, ask your grand, or look her up on YouTube. -- ask your | :47:05. | :47:12. | |
grandmother. The Brazilian Bombshell, that title followed her. | :47:13. | :47:19. | |
She went on to achieve worldwide fame, star of Hollywood films in the | :47:20. | :47:25. | |
1940s. She was seldom seen without a vibrant fruit adorned headgear. I | :47:26. | :47:32. | |
notice there is an extra guava in your hat, very fetching. There are | :47:33. | :47:38. | |
indeed. There they Carmen Miranda museum here in Rio, where you can | :47:39. | :47:43. | |
study her life and her headgear. For the athletes coming in, a great | :47:44. | :47:47. | |
number have gone home after competing in their event. They don't | :47:48. | :47:52. | |
come in as their teams here, they just coming together. It's a | :47:53. | :47:57. | |
celebration of togetherness. 207 teams and delegations, or 205 | :47:58. | :48:02. | |
countries and two special teams, and they all come in together under | :48:03. | :48:08. | |
their flags. They sure do, one giant joyous unruly and rather giddy | :48:09. | :48:12. | |
gathering of the greatest athletes and their homes on the planets, | :48:13. | :48:16. | |
mixing together and sending selfies to every corner of the world. The | :48:17. | :48:22. | |
flag their first of all, the Union Flag tonight is being carried by | :48:23. | :48:27. | |
Kate Richardson-Walsh, the wonderful captain of the women's hockey team. | :48:28. | :48:31. | |
Is interesting flag-bearers to look out for, the Greek, the first in | :48:32. | :48:36. | |
there, Caster Semenya is carrying the flag for South Africa. The | :48:37. | :48:46. | |
heptathlon champion is carrying the Belgian flag. The Simone Biles, the | :48:47. | :48:51. | |
four times gold-medallist of the United States, a diminutive figure, | :48:52. | :48:57. | |
but a giant of these Games. Almaz Ayana of Ethiopian, who smashed the | :48:58. | :49:01. | |
record in the 10,000 metres, an astonishing run. The French judoka, | :49:02. | :49:06. | |
the giant man who has defended his title in the 100 kilograms plus | :49:07. | :49:12. | |
category. For Hungary, a swimmer, three golds and a silver. Lisa | :49:13. | :49:17. | |
Carrington for New Zealand. The most medals they have ever won in a | :49:18. | :49:27. | |
single games is 18. And for Brazil, one kidney, they call him. He says | :49:28. | :49:31. | |
he has the lungs of three men and he's the first Brazilian ever to win | :49:32. | :49:36. | |
three medals in a single Games. They adore this man. What a performance | :49:37. | :49:41. | |
that has been by Brazil. We talked of the Opening Ceremony, we wondered | :49:42. | :49:45. | |
our Brazil going to get that little kick, that list that home nations | :49:46. | :49:49. | |
get, and that they have won seven golds among their medals. Beach | :49:50. | :49:57. | |
Volleyball Arena for the men, men's volleyball, the silver in the great | :49:58. | :49:59. | |
pole vault, a wonderful achievement, that battle. And in the lightweight | :50:00. | :50:06. | |
boxing, the man from the streets of El Salvador. Rafael Silva, the woman | :50:07. | :50:14. | |
from the City of God here in Rio, winning judo gold. That was the | :50:15. | :50:18. | |
first gold, on day three. And here they come. | :50:19. | :50:26. | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE A trickle at the moment, but there | :50:27. | :50:30. | |
will be more, I promise you. It's not just this lot that have stayed | :50:31. | :50:34. | |
around. We said again some of the athletes do move on very quickly to | :50:35. | :50:38. | |
the next event. Andy Murray is in Cincinnati, going very well, into | :50:39. | :50:41. | |
the final. The athletes that have stayed, a lot of those who were | :50:42. | :50:46. | |
competing later but some completed earlier in the Games and decided to | :50:47. | :50:49. | |
stay out here for the full two or three weeks. In they come and we | :50:50. | :50:55. | |
really thought that it probably couldn't get any better than London | :50:56. | :51:00. | |
for Great Britain's athletes, but it just has. Great Britain and Northern | :51:01. | :51:03. | |
Ireland have broken new ground. Since the modern Games began in | :51:04. | :51:07. | |
1896, the first time that any country has increased its medal | :51:08. | :51:10. | |
tally at the summer Games immediately following the wallet | :51:11. | :51:16. | |
hosted. So they leave Rio with 67 medals, two more than the 65 of | :51:17. | :51:22. | |
those heavy gauge in London and you have to pinch yourself. Is anybody | :51:23. | :51:30. | |
filming this? I can tell you the phones, I think it's important point | :51:31. | :51:36. | |
out that London and Rio are not glorious anomalies. They are | :51:37. | :51:38. | |
extraordinary for Great Britain but they represent the evidence surely | :51:39. | :51:43. | |
that in UK Sport and the BOM the constituents and contributing bodies | :51:44. | :51:46. | |
and institutes of sports throughout the entire United Kingdom, we do now | :51:47. | :51:50. | |
have a world-class system of talent identification and coaching and | :51:51. | :51:54. | |
athlete support, and it seems amazing to think back just 20 years | :51:55. | :51:58. | |
that the British team returned home from Atlanta with just one goal. | :51:59. | :52:03. | |
Yes, Redgrave and Pinsent it was, incidentally if you are wondering, | :52:04. | :52:10. | |
this is DJ -- DJ Dolores and Orchestra Santa Massa. | :52:11. | :52:17. | |
It's not quite going to be the same length of time as it took for the | :52:18. | :52:23. | |
parade of nations in the Opening Ceremony. They will be ushered in | :52:24. | :52:26. | |
fairly quickly. Not the full noble of over 11,000 athletes who competed | :52:27. | :52:32. | |
here in Rio -- the full number. Everyone seems fairly happy. If you | :52:33. | :52:36. | |
carry a medal around your neck it gives you particular currency. You | :52:37. | :52:40. | |
are special. You get a special seat. I'm very glad the rain has stopped | :52:41. | :52:44. | |
because the seats the athletes will sit on are just around the field of | :52:45. | :52:50. | |
play in the Maracana, much drier than they were half an hour ago. | :52:51. | :52:53. | |
They are showing off the hardware out there. When you think back over | :52:54. | :52:59. | |
the last two weeks, we said farewell, really, to Olympic | :53:00. | :53:03. | |
legends, Phelps and Bolt, Michael Phelps with his 23 golds. It's the | :53:04. | :53:09. | |
fourth consecutive Games he has won more medals than anybody else. He is | :53:10. | :53:12. | |
a one-man team, this phenomenal swimmer. And Usain Bolt, it's his | :53:13. | :53:20. | |
30th birthday today. Happy birthday, Usain Bolt World War III. -- Usain. | :53:21. | :53:31. | |
I know he has given us such entertainment, he will be at the | :53:32. | :53:35. | |
World Championships next year, but his last Olympic Games without | :53:36. | :53:42. | |
doubt. A great way to go out. There have been so many successes and so | :53:43. | :53:46. | |
many significant moments of these Games. We can look back on, not just | :53:47. | :53:50. | |
for Great Britain, but for Allyson Felix of the United States, her | :53:51. | :53:56. | |
sixthth gold medal and be Americans, their most successful away Games, | :53:57. | :54:00. | |
they have topped the medal table by a long way. But Great Britain, with | :54:01. | :54:07. | |
27, an extraordinary performance to finish above China. They were first, | :54:08. | :54:12. | |
Sophie Hitchon was excited about coming to the closing ceremony, | :54:13. | :54:17. | |
bronze in the hammer, the first female medallist in that event. But | :54:18. | :54:22. | |
there were so many for Great Britain's athletes. Medals in 19 | :54:23. | :54:26. | |
different sports out of the 28. That's two more than in London. And | :54:27. | :54:31. | |
we were trying to keep tabs on all the returning champions from London | :54:32. | :54:35. | |
and I began to lose count. I think it's about 16 of the 21 returning | :54:36. | :54:40. | |
gold-medallists from London either retained their title or won gold in | :54:41. | :54:45. | |
something else. Nick Skelton, for example. China, third place there, | :54:46. | :54:50. | |
well done to them. Look at some of the British firsts in Rio, we talked | :54:51. | :54:56. | |
about Sophie Hitchon in the hammer, but Bryony Page won first trampoline | :54:57. | :54:59. | |
medal and there was the first success in gymnastics as well, or | :55:00. | :55:06. | |
except for Beth Tweddle, but in certain disciplines to have that | :55:07. | :55:09. | |
success in that sport, which was never considered in the past as | :55:10. | :55:14. | |
being a possible sort of medals. 2008 was the first medal 4/80 years | :55:15. | :55:20. | |
in gymnastics and Max Whitlock got two in one evening, plus the bronze | :55:21. | :55:24. | |
in the individual all-around. And there was Nile Wilson and Amy | :55:25. | :55:28. | |
Tinkler as well, and those repeating and doing great things, Charlotte | :55:29. | :55:31. | |
Dujardin, Laura Trott, the first women to retain an individual | :55:32. | :55:36. | |
Olympic title. Mo Farah's long-distance double, he did it, it | :55:37. | :55:42. | |
all started in the pool come with Adam Peaty in that sensational style | :55:43. | :55:47. | |
with that emphatic 100 metres breaststroke in a world-record time, | :55:48. | :55:51. | |
the second time he smashed it. His own world record. The British | :55:52. | :55:55. | |
swimmers, a wonderful hall from them, they have smashed their own | :55:56. | :56:00. | |
medal target. One of the more serious aspects, we talk about | :56:01. | :56:03. | |
athletes going back to compete in events elsewhere, we talk about Andy | :56:04. | :56:06. | |
Murray playing in Cincinnati, but some of the athletes who compete in | :56:07. | :56:10. | |
Olympic Games are incredibly highly paid and successful athletes, but a | :56:11. | :56:14. | |
lot of these athletes will go back to doing jobs, to doing work. Some | :56:15. | :56:19. | |
of them might rid -- retire. This might be the end of a lifetime dream | :56:20. | :56:23. | |
to compete in the Olympics and they have to look forward to what to do, | :56:24. | :56:27. | |
it's down notes but it's interesting that for a lot of these athletes it | :56:28. | :56:31. | |
will be back to doing something very different. And for some of them it | :56:32. | :56:36. | |
will be business as usual. I mean, Justin Rose, the history man for | :56:37. | :56:41. | |
golf, and what a fantastic supporter and enthusiast of this entire golf | :56:42. | :56:46. | |
resurgence within the Olympic movement. With golf in particular, | :56:47. | :56:52. | |
with the women's event and Shang Chunsong winning and it's a huge | :56:53. | :56:56. | |
audience in China, a lot of people were talking about it being a rather | :56:57. | :57:00. | |
rocky position, would it be their reason in Tokyo going forward but | :57:01. | :57:04. | |
I'm pretty sure it has cemented the place now. You mentioned Shang | :57:05. | :57:10. | |
Chunsong of China, Inbee Park taking the gold and completing a golden | :57:11. | :57:15. | |
slamming gold. Lydia Ko was involved, a New Zealander and China, | :57:16. | :57:21. | |
South Korea, these are the markets golf is trying to get into. I think | :57:22. | :57:25. | |
golf is in pretty good shape going forward in terms of the Olympics. | :57:26. | :57:34. | |
What we are also looking forward to tonight, coming slightly later in | :57:35. | :57:40. | |
the ceremony, is the handover, the section where Tokyo presents a bit | :57:41. | :57:43. | |
of a ceremony of their own. They have a section of the evening. I | :57:44. | :57:47. | |
promise you that will be interesting. They have had a good | :57:48. | :57:55. | |
Games, Japan, 12 golds, they had targeted 14. But significantly about | :57:56. | :57:59. | |
20 bronze medals for Japan, which really does say these guys are going | :58:00. | :58:04. | |
to be coming for their home Games. It points to real potential for the | :58:05. | :58:08. | |
next four years and how exciting to think that is where Great Britain | :58:09. | :58:12. | |
was in 2008 in Beijing, seeing that whole process start for them now. A | :58:13. | :58:16. | |
little bit of rain coming down inside the Maracana again but nobody | :58:17. | :58:18. | |
seems to concerned at the moment. We've had a record ten nations | :58:19. | :58:37. | |
winning their first ever Olympic gold medals here. As the French come | :58:38. | :58:50. | |
in. We've had Ivory Coast, Cisse nicking that taekwondo gold from | :58:51. | :58:53. | |
Lutalo Muhammad in the final session, the final second of that | :58:54. | :58:56. | |
bout. It was an extraordinary victory and dancing in the streets | :58:57. | :59:04. | |
I'm sure. This is like the awkward moment at the start of a school | :59:05. | :59:08. | |
dance where nobody's mingling properly yet, but give it time. A | :59:09. | :59:12. | |
little nudge from the PE teacher and they'll all be across dancing with | :59:13. | :59:15. | |
each other. There's a lot of seats to be filled up here. That's for | :59:16. | :59:18. | |
sure. Nobody seems to be taking them yet. Nvment -- yet. | :59:19. | :59:25. | |
One of the favourite moments of the Games in the Pacific's eyes was the | :59:26. | :59:36. | |
men's Rugby 7's gold for Fiji. They came straight in and took that gold | :59:37. | :59:39. | |
in the men's competition, what a win. I saw footage of their home | :59:40. | :59:44. | |
coming. It was extraordinary. The Rugby 7's team not here for Fiji. | :59:45. | :59:50. | |
The javelin thrower carrying their flag in. It was, I would say | :59:51. | :59:54. | |
expected, because lots of things could happen, but they were the | :59:55. | :59:58. | |
favourites. For them to get that medal, even if it was against Great | :59:59. | :00:01. | |
Britain in the final, I think a lot of people were still cheering for | :00:02. | :00:04. | |
Fiji, because it meant so much to them. | :00:05. | :00:12. | |
Another nation that a Gold Medal has meant so much to is Kosovo. This was | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
the first time they have ever taken part as an independent nation in the | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
Olympics. In judo they won the gold. The prime minister back home | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
immediately, indeed all their athletes here, what a fantastic | :00:29. | :00:38. | |
Games for that nation. And Jordan, Bahrain, Vietnam, Singapore, | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
Tajikhistan, Ivory Coast, all of them celebrating. One thing the | :00:42. | :00:50. | |
weather has done tonight is ensure that we won't, sadly, have the | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
overhead shots of the Maracana, which are so spectacular because | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
helicopters are grounded. We're getting plenty of footage down | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
inside the mar canament he looked like he could just reach up and film | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
from above. Great Britain and Northern Ireland coming in in their | :01:08. | :01:08. | |
numbers. We'll see if we can spot some of | :01:09. | :01:24. | |
these medallists as they come in for Great Britain and Northern Ireland. | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
There's plenty of them, that's for sure. Nice moves! | :01:27. | :01:47. | |
They have the flashing shoes. Check these out. These were team kit | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
issue. They flash red, white and blue. You won't miss them. | :01:54. | :02:06. | |
I think France are holding everyone up here. | :02:07. | :02:24. | |
It's not just about winning medals here. There have been some amazing | :02:25. | :02:34. | |
stories throughout the Games. The selfie of unity between north and | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
South Korea, two of their gymnasts taking a selfie and creating an | :02:41. | :02:48. | |
iconic moment of unity. Spotted chatting away and laughing during | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
qualification rounds and taking pictures of each other. That went | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
viral as a symbol of peace around the world. | :02:57. | :03:05. | |
Just looking down to see how involved the athletes from Great | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
Britain and Northern Ireland are getting in the dancing. It's fairly | :03:12. | :03:12. | |
restrained at the moment. Glimpse of a couple of the hockey | :03:13. | :03:30. | |
team there. What an achievement by the British women's hockey team. In | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
that penalty shootout against the Dutch as well, it was very, very | :03:35. | :03:43. | |
tense. The Cox in the rogue being hoisted aloft there. That will be | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
one of my abiding memories of the Games, all 26 of the medallists in | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
rogue coming in -- rowing, coming in for a chat within about 20 minutes | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
of each other. They've had a very good night. Nile Wilson, made | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
history, not only the first British man to get into a high bar final, | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
but he took a medal as well. Congratulations. | :04:06. | :04:21. | |
Emily Diamond going past. Dani Buchard, a great run behind Mo | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
Farah, doing the double double. Like an enormous dental | :04:25. | :04:47. | |
advertisement. One of the other moments of the Games was in the | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
women's 5000m you probably remember this, Hamblin of New Zealand and | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
Dagoustino, they clipped heels and went tumbling to the ground. Hamblin | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
stopped and helped her up. They had to finish it. Yeah, with a torn ACL. | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
The spirit of the Games. You go back to Barcelona and Derek Redmond going | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
round with his father for the last 100. Hambn said afterwards, you can | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
make friends in the moments that really should break your heart. | :05:26. | :05:34. | |
I have to say, this is reasonably orderly so far. It gets a bit out of | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
hand sometimes at a Closing Ceremony. Just heading to the punch | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
at the other end. So it will all get a little more chaotic. | :05:47. | :06:35. | |
The whole picture being framed by that magnificent sculpture, around | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
the Olympic flame. That's been one of the stars of the show, I think. | :06:43. | :06:50. | |
We're getting a good look at the footwear now. That's certainly a | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
statement. Just general milling around at the | :06:53. | :07:32. | |
moment as DJ Dolores and orchestra Santa Massa do their stuff, the slow | :07:33. | :07:42. | |
filling of the Maracana. Ukraine's athletes coming in. Top woman of the | :07:43. | :07:54. | |
Games, Katie Ledecki, four gold, one silver, queen of the Games for the | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
United States and officely, Michael Phelps, five gold and one silver for | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
him. What's your high point of the Games, if you had to pick one | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
moment. I'll let you have three moments... Thanks, very generous of | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
you. I think whilst I've cheered every single one of Great Britain | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
and Northern Ireland's medals, I think last night, in the football | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
final, here in the Maracana Stadium, it kind of topped everything. I've | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
taken a huge interest in the fortunes of the host nations at the | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
Games that I've been to, and when the men's football team topped the | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
lot, five-time winners of the World Cup, never won the Olympic gold, the | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
Maracana was built to host the World Cup finals in 1950. They lost in the | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
final there to Uruguay. Of course, in their own World Cup two years ago | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
they lost 7-1. To win against Germany in the Maracana was deeply | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
and doubly meaningful to this nation. We quite often look at | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
football and the Olympics as being, well, shouldn't be there or a less | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
important thing, but here in Brazil, the football was about the most | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
important thing. A lot of Olympic sports have been overlooked by a few | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
Brazilian people. When the football final was happening last night, | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
everybody was glued to the television. You've got to think, the | :09:11. | :09:21. | |
penalty from Neymar secured their sixth Gold Medal. You had a heady | :09:22. | :09:30. | |
cocktail of emotion and catharsis and joy. It was utterly glorious. | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
The rain is getting a bit heavier here. The wind has picked up. Again, | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
everyone is well protected and prepared. Van Neicker would be mine. | :09:40. | :09:53. | |
We change the music here. We have frevo dancers. They carry umbrellas, | :09:54. | :10:01. | |
so they're well prepared. Frefa grew out of the African-Brazilian martial | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
art dancing. Fights used to break out at carnival. They used to fight | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
with knives. The police cracked down so they started carrying umbrellas | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
instead and disguising the dance moves and that became the frevo | :10:18. | :10:18. | |
dance. I think we're moving on to DJ Mika | :10:19. | :12:32. | |
Mutti. I could be wrong. Tell me more about DJ Mika Mutti. Ah... He's | :12:33. | :12:50. | |
a DJ. He has an aliterativ name. In terms of the assessment of these | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
Games for Brazil, we talked about the breath taking and beautiful back | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
drop, from the wildness of that road race, cycle circuit to the triage | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
lab at Copacabana and the shots framing Christ The Redeemer at | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
Lagoa. I don't think I've seen a more magnificent setting for a | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
Games. This was a country in which people were dubious about the wisdom | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
of holding the Games at such a time, in terms of the economic and | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
political back drop and the health crisis. I think from press and | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
television coverage each day, you could really sense the country | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
gradually beginning to embrace events here in Rio. With each | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
passing medal, momentum and enthusiasm has begun to build | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
culminating in the football gold last night and men's volleyball gold | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
earlier today. Belarus getting into the spirit of | :13:45. | :13:46. | |
things. There was a lot of negativity, as | :13:47. | :13:56. | |
there is before any Olympic Games, this is going to go wrong, | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
everything is up in the air, but in the end, Brazil has delivered. Rio | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
de Janeiro has delivered. As -- against the backdrop of huge | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
financial and economic problems in the background, it was never going | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
to be perfect. No Olympic Games really can be perfect. But I think | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
Rio de Janeiro can be very proud of what it has delivered. Of course the | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
Olympic Games will move on, the circus leaves town and there will be | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
plenty of problems for the city and the country to deal with. We can't | :14:26. | :14:34. | |
pretend everything is suddenly OK because the Olympics has been a | :14:35. | :14:36. | |
success, but they have had moments to celebrate here and when a circus | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
comes to town it is entertaining for a while. It's certainly cost this | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
nation a lot and at a time when they could arguably least afford it. It | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
was announced the retirement age for women in this country is set to | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
rise, everybody is going to be paying for it for awhile, but you | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
hope it has earned Brazil a huge amount as well. A survey says about | :14:55. | :15:02. | |
95% of -- people who come to Brazil in this fortnight would hurry back | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
in a heartbeat in the future and many millions will have watched | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
these pictures and vowed one day they will come to this incredibly | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
vibrant country as well. Is an argument that perhaps in Olympic | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
Games should be permanently in Greece, with permanent | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
infrastructure there, that everybody contributes to financially so there | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
isn't the huge outlay that any city or country has to deal with. Tokyo | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
and Japan will be able to cope with it. After that, in 2024, you are | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
looking at either Los Angeles, Budapest, Rome or Paris, but it's a | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
huge outlay for any city to try to handle. It is, but at the same time | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
when you think back on the humble and warm and proud and genuine | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
welcome we've been given from that cool and elegant and simply | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
sophistication of their Olympic Opening Ceremony to celebration | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
tonight of being amazingly diverse culture within Brazil, I think we | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
have learned so much about this fantastic part of the world and | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
that's always part of the experience of the Olympic Games. | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
The multicoloured Maracana, as the athletes continue to come in. | :16:13. | :16:31. | |
The man with the instrument on his chest continues to entertainers, as | :16:32. | :16:41. | |
the Netherlands violin. The Dutch have been going for three golds in | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
the row in the women's hockey, until that penalty shoot out against Kate | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
Richardson-Walsh and her team-mates. But they've done so well in the | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
cycling events, particularly on the road. I know they had great hopes in | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
the Olympic Stadium, oh, that scared me for a moment, they had great | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
hopes for Dafne Schippers, in a 200 metres. The number of Dutch fans in | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
the Olympic Stadium was enormous. She couldn't quite do it as Elaine | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
Thompson of Jamaica did the 100 and 200 metres double, but they always | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
bring great colour and noise, the Dutch fans, when they arrive. I | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
think everybody is agreed they have staged a very spectacular Games, | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
Rio. Yes, there have been a fair number of mad paddling ventures | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
beneath the surface, there have been transport issues, there have been | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
very, very bright shoes! There have been unsold seats, long queues to | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
get into the venues, but everybody has agreed the venues have been | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
superb, and they've allowed the athletes to produce the performances | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
we will remember from these Games. I'm left wondering what the battery | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
life is in those shoes! Do they bring charges with them? They might | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
cause a few problems at security tomorrow at the airport! | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
I wonder if it's still the same that a gold medal usually gets an upgrade | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
on the flight home, because with the number this time it's going to be | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
very, very difficult. They're going to need a bigger plane, Andrew. | :18:22. | :18:33. | |
It's winter in Rio de Janeiro, we've been fortunate with the weather. | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
It's pretty good in winter anyway, is usually drier and cooler, but | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
it's been warm and sunny, saving the rainfall of final day, for the | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
closing ceremony. Australians are coming in. They go home with eight | :18:50. | :18:58. | |
gold medals. I don't think you heard, Andrew, the other day on the | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
air I was reading out an editorial from the newspaper in Australia, | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
remember the good old days when we had fun teasing them about how we | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
beat the Brits? We had TVs and at least one of them is playing God | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
Save The Queen at any one moment, it said. Yes, some soul searching for | :19:23. | :19:32. | |
Australia. But delivering since 1929, delivered considerable success | :19:33. | :19:40. | |
in the Olympics in all sports. It's a proud sporting nation and it does | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
underline the lessons that have to be learned after hosting a Games. It | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
is 16 years now since the Sydney Olympics. Remember when the Sydney | :19:50. | :20:00. | |
Olympics and the president of the IOC called it the best Games ever, | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
then London got a ringing endorsement as well from Jacques | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
Rogge. I wonder what Thomas Bach will say about the Games of Brazil. | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
Everyone waits to see what the statements are and what phrase he | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
will come up with the sum up these Games. | :20:15. | :20:47. | |
The United States entering the arena. I know there's only so much | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
staring at smiling athletes you can take, but almost all the countries | :20:54. | :21:02. | |
are with as now. -- with us now. They're in no hurry to take their | :21:03. | :21:03. | |
seats. As you see all of these flags | :21:04. | :21:24. | |
fluttering in the breeze here in the Maracana Stadium, it's worth | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
remembering that 87 nations winning medals, new share became the 87th | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
here in Rio, a new Games record -- Niger. Some entries have stolen the | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
limelight in terms of numbers of medals. There's great happiness | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
amongst the huge number and taking hardware home with them today. | :21:47. | :22:03. | |
Here's the United States of America, taking 46 gold medals north of here. | :22:04. | :23:14. | |
Yes, the US with 46 medals, 121 in total. Great Britain, 27 gold and | :23:15. | :23:33. | |
67, as we've been saying. So United States still the power team of the | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
Olympic movement. Well, there's always talk about | :23:37. | :23:53. | |
whether America is top of the medal table and by which count. Is it | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
total medals? Or is it golds # I'm sure in China they will present at | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
the moment as total medals won because they did sneak it from Great | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
Britain and Northern Ireland in total medals. Interesting the | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
Russian Federation, 19 medals and 56 in total. That was with about two | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
thirds of the team they were supposed to bring here. | :24:20. | :24:30. | |
Of course other Paralympic Games there will be no Russian athletes. | :24:31. | :24:40. | |
The leader of the Paralympic movement was strong and decisive in | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
his condemnation, so this doping situation does rumble on where the | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
Paralympics are concerned. The it's a celebration, people will be | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
thinking about the Paralympic Games due to be a success, and so many | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
problems they will face now with the shortfall in funding but still a | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
very, very strong and well supported team from Great Britain and Northern | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
Ireland coming out. A lot of people will be heading over, or getting | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
here already to get ready for it. I'm sure they'll be given a very | :25:14. | :25:15. | |
warm welcome. Maybe a rainy one! It is a tropical country but it does | :25:16. | :25:27. | |
feel a little more autumnal in the last couple of days. We are moving | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
into the depths of winter in this country. Still, we'd take it, we'd | :25:34. | :25:46. | |
take! Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania pressing in there. | :25:47. | :26:44. | |
We're getting glimpses of the Union Flag is coming in, with the team. I | :26:45. | :26:52. | |
interviewed UK Sport Chief Executive Liz Nicholl you're the day and she | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
said, we knew we had potentially 79 medal shots and our target was at | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
least 40, the best way Games ever, but really we were aiming for the | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
66, won more than London, and she said it shows the system is working | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
at the UK. Yet those of us involved, there's a huge amount more that can | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
be improved, more potential to come, so as we look ahead to Tokyo it's | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
really exciting. It was something, Andrew, that Katherine Grainger Eid. | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
She said whilst we should rejoice at this level of success, amazingly we | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
should now start to expect it. Well, it's nice to see Japan and coming in | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
wearing Japanese flags, Brazilian flags as well. Again, Japan will | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
play a part in this closing ceremony. Yes, it's not just about | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
success at the top level of in sport, it's about success at the top | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
which inspires people, it inspires youngsters to try sports out, but if | :27:48. | :27:50. | |
there aren't the facilities to try out those sports it's to no end, so | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
the debate will go on. The funding, the cost per medal not per gold | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
medal for Great Britain and Northern Ireland is considerable. The | :28:02. | :28:03. | |
National lotteries giving funding out. -- the national lottery is | :28:04. | :28:14. | |
giving funding out. How exciting for these athletes from Japan. The flag, | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
the Olympic flag, is going to be handed over to their capital city, | :28:20. | :28:22. | |
Tokyo, later this evening. The build-up will start for real for | :28:23. | :28:24. | |
them. Belarus getting into the spirit of | :28:25. | :28:32. | |
things. We're all waving at the camera, life | :28:33. | :28:35. | |
is good. The Japanese had a fantastic evening | :28:36. | :28:53. | |
in the wrestling arena. They had the equivalent of our super Saturday, in | :28:54. | :28:57. | |
one evening three female wrestlers won gold in the same session. It was | :28:58. | :29:01. | |
their most successful sport. Big team of Japan. They will be | :29:02. | :29:09. | |
targeting the Games in Tokyo as athletes from a host country do | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
building up to it, they know it's so special to have that success at | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
home. I notice the men's four by 100 in athletics took the Silver Medal | :29:19. | :29:21. | |
there. It was an incredible run. They are beginning to show strength | :29:22. | :29:26. | |
in some events that they haven't historically shown great strength, | :29:27. | :29:33. | |
improving their weaker sports. Ukraine's athletes all wrapped up. | :29:34. | :29:40. | |
These athletes looking forward to their own Opening Ceremony, July 24, | :29:41. | :29:46. | |
2020. Just about everybody is in now. This lot have done a sterling | :29:47. | :29:51. | |
job. Japan's athletes coming in last. | :29:52. | :30:11. | |
They're going to get used to that. Because that's the position they'll | :30:12. | :30:18. | |
be in as the host nation in the Athletes'Parade in four years. | :30:19. | :30:32. | |
The rain's been pouring down. It really doesn't seem to matter. | :30:33. | :31:21. | |
There's a slightly chaotic scene, as they come in and find their seats. | :31:22. | :31:45. | |
But it does make you think that, you know, once again, we've shared in | :31:46. | :31:52. | |
the most incredible celebration - ah, Helen Glover congratulations. | :31:53. | :31:56. | |
She got the gold rush started four years ago in London. She came back, | :31:57. | :32:02. | |
did it again. That was in the women's pair. Heather Stanning, her | :32:03. | :32:12. | |
partner on the water. The first women's crew to come back at the | :32:13. | :32:14. | |
Olympics and retain a Gold Medal. I like the women trying to get them | :32:15. | :32:51. | |
to sit down. When you see these faces, see the | :32:52. | :32:55. | |
achievement, people from every single part of the world have come | :32:56. | :32:59. | |
together in one place, at the one time, to be the very best they can | :33:00. | :33:05. | |
possibly be. For the last two weeks, we've been hearing all of their | :33:06. | :33:09. | |
stories and dedication and hard work and of passion and belief that | :33:10. | :33:17. | |
drives them every day. Sports reminded us of how amazing we can | :33:18. | :33:22. | |
be. It does allow us to share those rare moments that bring us all | :33:23. | :33:26. | |
together, get us talk being to strangers and -- talking to | :33:27. | :33:29. | |
strangers, crying with relief, empathy and joy for a change. This | :33:30. | :33:33. | |
is a good effort by DJ Dolores and her gang. They've had to dig deep | :33:34. | :33:38. | |
into the back catalogue to keep this going. I think this section of the | :33:39. | :33:45. | |
parade was originally scheduled for about 20 minutes. It's taken them | :33:46. | :33:53. | |
four years of effort to get here, I think we can spare them 20 minutes | :33:54. | :33:59. | |
to come back in. Who would have thought thousands of D mob happy | :34:00. | :34:03. | |
athletes would be so hard to control? | :34:04. | :35:02. | |
A lot of medals on show tonight, as there should be. It's always | :35:03. | :35:08. | |
important to remember that as the founder of the modern Olympic | :35:09. | :35:12. | |
movement, Pierre de Coubertin said, the important thing in the Olympic | :35:13. | :35:15. | |
Games is not to win, but to take part. The important thing in life is | :35:16. | :35:21. | |
not triumph, but the struggle and the essential thing is not to have | :35:22. | :35:25. | |
conquered but to have fought well. They've all done that. | :35:26. | :35:44. | |
Even DJ Dolores is looking a little bit cross. | :35:45. | :36:27. | |
Is Carmen Miranda still down there? She's quietly eating her fruit, | :36:28. | :37:35. | |
she's so border. -- bored. There is plenty more to get through | :37:36. | :37:56. | |
this evening. There has been a bit of a hold up in proceedings whilst | :37:57. | :37:58. | |
we get the athletes in. Something's happening. Stand by your | :37:59. | :38:20. | |
beds. That's the athletes in, in case you | :38:21. | :38:58. | |
hadn't noticed. Ladies and gentleman, the athletes | :38:59. | :39:11. | |
of the 31 st Olympiad. I couldn't agree more. Right now, | :39:12. | :39:30. | |
the IOC is getting down with the kids. | :39:31. | :39:41. | |
This is Kygo from Bergen, Norway. One of the biggest stars in the | :39:42. | :39:49. | |
world and Julia Mikeles as well. Dygo is the fastest artist to reach | :39:50. | :39:59. | |
one billion streams on Spotify. This song, Carry Me, will be followed by | :40:00. | :40:06. | |
a launch of an Olympic Channel. If two weeks of your life given over to | :40:07. | :40:09. | |
night and day watching of the Games isn't enough, you can deny yourself | :40:10. | :40:15. | |
sleep all the time, with the free digital platform, 365 days a year, | :40:16. | :40:18. | |
featuring Olympic sports and content. I think I'll get some sleep | :40:19. | :40:26. | |
first. Kygo was the first electronic | :40:27. | :40:39. | |
musician to perform at a Nobel Peace Prize Concert, which was very | :40:40. | :40:40. | |
similar to this. There'll be more to the Olympic | :40:41. | :41:38. | |
Channel than people dancing and looking happy. 365 days a year, all | :41:39. | :41:45. | |
sorts of content on. There -- on there. Athletes have joined them on | :41:46. | :41:53. | |
stage. You might recognise one of them, it's an interesting, eclectic | :41:54. | :41:59. | |
mix. The 18-year-old swimmer from the refugee team is there. You have | :42:00. | :42:06. | |
the 400 metre champion as well. And the tongian who is here essentially | :42:07. | :42:11. | |
because he oiled himself up massively for the Opening Ceremony, | :42:12. | :42:15. | |
carrying the flag for Tonga and went viral. Perhaps he'll go viral again. | :42:16. | :42:25. | |
We've had the full noise from Brazilian musicians. Now we're going | :42:26. | :42:28. | |
to celebrate their artists going way, way back to prehistoric times. | :42:29. | :43:06. | |
We're celebrating the discovery and preservation of cave paintings of | :43:07. | :43:14. | |
Serra da Capivara, a World Heritage Site in Brazil. They have finds | :43:15. | :43:19. | |
dating back some 22,000 years, considered one of the most important | :43:20. | :43:23. | |
ark logical sites in all of the Americas. | :43:24. | :43:32. | |
The music provided by a choir of children from the indigenous | :43:33. | :43:40. | |
peoples. It's one of the poorer states of | :43:41. | :43:54. | |
Brazil, in the north-east, being represented. | :43:55. | :44:21. | |
This section of the ceremony echoes a poignant pause for thought in | :44:22. | :47:03. | |
London's Opening Ceremony in London, and Rio asking is here and | :47:04. | :47:06. | |
everywhere around the world to remember loved ones who have touched | :47:07. | :47:15. | |
our lives. Missing, and particularly poignant after the red full traffic | :47:16. | :47:18. | |
accident in Rio which claimed the life of a German Canoe Slalom World | :47:19. | :47:25. | |
Cup coach, a silver-medallist in 2004 he has in turn saved the lives | :47:26. | :47:30. | |
of four people by organ donation transplants after his untimely | :47:31. | :47:30. | |
death. And now we paid tribute, as we did | :47:31. | :48:16. | |
in the Opening Ceremony, to the contribution of black culture to the | :48:17. | :48:20. | |
formation of Brazil. They are making lace. This tradition of lacemaking | :48:21. | :48:28. | |
passed down through Portuguese culture and celebrated in the song, | :48:29. | :48:37. | |
Lace-Making Woman. It serves to remind as a gain of Brazil's | :48:38. | :48:41. | |
colonial period, when slave women were allowed to sell lace on street | :48:42. | :48:47. | |
stalls. Slavery abolished in the 1880s here. | :48:48. | :49:02. | |
MUSIC: Mulher Rendeira "Lace-Making Woman" by Lampiao | :49:03. | :49:05. | |
CHEERING Beautiful visuals again. | :49:06. | :51:02. | |
And from lace, we move on to play. I know what you're thinking, we have | :51:03. | :51:10. | |
stayed up until 115 in the morning for Brazilian handicrafts but this | :51:11. | :51:13. | |
is quite beautiful. They will perform one of their shows. | :51:14. | :51:32. | |
CHEERING It's an abbreviation which means | :51:33. | :55:38. | |
shindig, which I do understand. So the clay figurines come to life. | :55:39. | :55:51. | |
This sick -- this section is inspired by an artist. It's like the | :55:52. | :55:58. | |
August edition of Handicraft Monthly, this, but in a very | :55:59. | :56:09. | |
beautiful way. The artist's work, a ceramic artist, who remains largely | :56:10. | :56:16. | |
unknown to the public, then his work was exhibited in Rio, and thereafter | :56:17. | :56:21. | |
his works became known nationwide and he is well loved. | :56:22. | :56:38. | |
# Eu te asseguro nao chore nao, viu | :56:39. | :58:16. | |
That's got the biggest cheer of the night so far. To the best moments of | :58:17. | :58:55. | |
the 2016 Olympic Games. Huge cheer for Silva for judo from | :58:56. | :59:58. | |
Brazil. Almost as big a cheer for Usain Bolt | :59:59. | :00:57. | |
as for the Brazilian athletes succeeding there. During the first | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
edition of the games in 1896 all the medals were handed out on the last | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
day. So, at this moment of the Closing Ceremony, the last medal for | :01:08. | :01:15. | |
the men's marathon is going to be held. Held in driving rain today. It | :01:16. | :01:24. | |
was during your afternoon. Won in historic style by Kenya. In fact, | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
the first time that Kenyan athletes have won both the men's and women's | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
marathons in the same Games. There were three British athletes running | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
in the men's marathon this morning. Great run by Callum Hawkins | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
finishing nine. His brother Derek also running. Eliud Kipchoge taking | :01:44. | :01:53. | |
it in the end for Kenya. Galen Rupp, interesting running in the 10,000, | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
fifth behind Mo Farah in that here. Doing a marathon double and a bronze | :01:59. | :02:06. | |
medal for the American. And Ethiopia taking the silver. Kipchoge won in | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
London this year. In fact an amazing record in marathon running. He's won | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
seven of his eight marathons that ease ever run. -- he's ever run. | :02:16. | :02:29. | |
How special to receive it at a Closing Ceremony, in front of the | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
whole watching world. Interesting, Mo Farah receiving his second, 5000m | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
one and the stadium just about empty. A significant number of | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
British fans there, but the stadium just about empty, because folks had | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
gone home by that stage of the evening. Sebastian Coe there | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
alongside Thomas Bach to do this one. The president of the IAAF now. | :02:52. | :03:00. | |
And Galen Rupp will get the bronze medal, former training partner of Mo | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
Farah. Finished five knowledge the 10,000m, Silver Medallist behind Mo | :03:08. | :03:09. | |
in London. Stepping up here to try the marathon as well as the 10,000. | :03:10. | :03:37. | |
Hugely admire what David Rodisha did in defending his 800m title. | :03:38. | :04:00. | |
Galen Rupp the first man from America to have won medals in the | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
men's 10,000m and men's marathon. He took the silver in the 10 k in 2012 | :04:06. | :04:13. | |
behind Mo. Astonishing for these athletes to be receiving their | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
medals in front of what would be the biggest medal ceremony crowd of the | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
Olympic Games. CHEERING This is the eighth medal | :04:20. | :04:53. | |
for Ethiopia in the men's marathon. It's their first silver. They've won | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
gold four times in the past in this event. This man, one of the ten | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
fastest marathon runners of all time. He has run under 2. 05. The | :05:03. | :05:19. | |
winning time was 2. 08. 44. Lilesa took bronze and now has an Olympic | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
Silver Medal. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | :05:22. | :05:56. | |
Only Kenya's second Gold Medal in the men's marathon. They won in | :05:57. | :06:05. | |
Beijing in 2008. They took the women's marathon gold here too. | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
Double celebration for Kenya. Kenyan men had a mixed time on the track. | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
It was called a national shame that no Kenyan man made the final of the | :06:13. | :06:21. | |
5000m. Eliud Kipchoge came into the marathon as the favourite. He was | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
silver in Beijing. He left the track behind to go to the road and now the | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
Olympic men's marathon champion. His moment and Kenya's anthem inside | :06:30. | :06:37. | |
the Maracana. What a moment for Eliud Kipchoge of | :06:38. | :08:00. | |
Kenya. So too for Feyisa Lilesa of Ethiopia and the United States' | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
Galen Rupp, to have their medal ceremony for the men's marathon | :08:06. | :08:06. | |
inside the Maracana tonight. Ladies and gentleman, the Olympic | :08:07. | :08:15. | |
medallists. Now they can join the party with the | :08:16. | :08:27. | |
rest. Now time to observe some formalities | :08:28. | :10:05. | |
here. Ladies and gentleman, please welcome | :10:06. | :10:28. | |
the newly elected members of the International Olympic Committee and | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
its athletes commission. Yes, four athletes have been elected to the | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
IOC's athletes commission, by their peers, here in Rio. For a term of | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
eight years. 11,245 athletes were elible to vote. They had 23 | :10:46. | :10:47. | |
candidates to choose from. They've chosen Brigita Heideman. She | :10:48. | :11:09. | |
won gold in Beijing. Table tennis. Rue of Korea -- Seug-min Ryu. Yelena | :11:10. | :11:26. | |
Isinbayeva also voted on. The woman who set a staggering 28 world pole | :11:27. | :11:36. | |
vault records in her career. Here is Seug-min Ryu, the table tennis | :11:37. | :11:47. | |
champion from Athens. Swimmer, gold in the 200m breaststroke in 2012 in | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
London and silver in 2004 in Athens. Yelena said about the pole vault | :11:51. | :12:05. | |
here, whoever wins will be second by default because she's not competing. | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
She said that whoever wins, it won't be a proper go, it will have been | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
done without Isinbayeva, referring to herself in the third person | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
there. It's now time to thank the volunteers. | :12:21. | :12:28. | |
CHEERING Always a very popular moment and always very well | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
deserved. Once again, they've been wonderfully warm and enthusiastic | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
and full of good cheer. They've illustrated what they call around | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
here Brazilianness, the capacity of Brazilian people to face adversity | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
with good humour, warmth and with happiness. | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
It's a lovely moment, flanked by the four new members of the IOC athlete | :12:54. | :13:02. | |
commission. And shelfy time. -- selfie time. That was quick. | :13:03. | :13:25. | |
This is by Lenine. Who was it who made the Games happen, what was it | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
that gave the heart. These people. MUSIC: Bachianas Brasileiras No 5 | :13:31. | :13:40. | |
by Heitor Villa-Lobos CHEERING | :13:41. | :15:38. | |
Lenine, and the volunteers who have made these Games possible. I've | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
never seen so many colours, my eyes... So the Greek national and, | :15:43. | :15:52. | |
as we prepare to lower the Olympic flag. And hoist flags as well. | :15:53. | :16:19. | |
GREEK NATIONAL ANTHEM PLAYS | :16:20. | :16:51. | |
The Greek flag is raised, and now to the sound of the Olympic Anthem, the | :16:52. | :16:59. | |
Olympic flag will be lowered, after Thomas Bach is introduced, alongside | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
the Mayor of Rio, Eduardo Paes, and the governor of Tokyo, Yuriko Koike. | :17:07. | :17:25. | |
Eduardo Paes, who received the flag from Boris Johnson in the 2012 | :17:26. | :17:34. | |
closing ceremony is getting at mixed reception, and Yuriko Koike, the | :17:35. | :17:36. | |
first woman governor of the city of Tokyo. | :17:37. | :17:55. | |
and -- the Olympic Anthem sung as it was at the Opening Ceremony, a | :17:56. | :20:31. | |
project which supports underprivileged children in Rio de | :20:32. | :20:32. | |
Janeiro. Ladies and gentlemen, the Olympic | :20:33. | :20:41. | |
flag handover ceremony. A very elegant figure. And for Japan | :20:42. | :21:31. | |
and the capital Tokyo, it's all very real indeed now, just as it was for | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
us when Boris Johnson rather enthusiastically took possession of | :21:36. | :21:36. | |
the Olympic flag in Beijing. Ladies and gentlemen, please... To | :21:37. | :22:03. | |
Tokyo's start of the Opening Ceremony, the national and some of | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
Japan. -- the closing ceremony. The national and of Japan. -- National | :22:10. | :22:20. | |
anthem of Japan. # Kimigayo wa | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
Chiyo ni yachiyo ni # Sazare-ishi no | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
Iwao to narite Thank you, Rio, Tokyo saying thank | :22:30. | :23:28. | |
you for the support that Japan received when the people around the | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
world after the devastating earthquakes and tsunami five years | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
ago, they are saying thank you for the chance to hold these Games in | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
Tokyo for the second time, after 1964, and thank you to Rio, Brazil, | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
for a wonderful Games here. We move onto sights we might expect in | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
Tokyo, this is the Scramble Crossing, where thousands cross at | :23:51. | :23:58. | |
every like change. -- light change. You might see also the Tokyo Tower, | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
1000 feet tall, modelled on the Eiffel Tower. The Rainbow Bridge, | :24:05. | :24:06. | |
the bullet train. MUSIC | :24:07. | :24:25. | |
A celebration of Japanese cartoons and video games as well. | :24:26. | :24:38. | |
Pac-Man, Hello Kitty, Captain Tsubasa. | :24:39. | :24:53. | |
A legendary swimmer making an appearance. A middleweight boxing | :24:54. | :25:01. | |
gold in London four years ago, and the Prime Minister appears. A relay, | :25:02. | :25:11. | |
of a red ball. Hello, Super Mario, obviously will. | :25:12. | :25:22. | |
Rio and Tokyo quite literally at the opposite end of the Earth. A link is | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
being established between the two cities. | :25:28. | :25:43. | |
Three, two, one. And here he is, Super Mario. The man portraying him | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
as the Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe! Well... In London, the | :25:50. | :25:59. | |
Queen was thrown out of a helicopter, so here's the Prime | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
Minister playing Super Mario. What a fabulous effort! | :26:04. | :26:13. | |
MUSIC And now we're going to see the Tokyo | :26:14. | :26:28. | |
2020 emblem, illustrated on the field, and surrounded by an | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
animation representing the 33 sports that are planned for Tokyo, five new | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
sports. Baseball and softball returning, there's karate, | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing for the first time. | :26:41. | :26:56. | |
MUSIC This is all performed by gymnasts | :26:57. | :27:15. | |
from Aomori University. And the use of augmented reality graphics, the | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
motto of Tokyo's Games is discovered tomorrow. And we'll discover more at | :27:21. | :27:27. | |
the Opening Ceremony, as I said, on the 24th of July in four years' | :27:28. | :27:28. | |
time. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | :27:29. | :28:58. | |
. Tokyo's emblem in the Ichimatsu | :28:59. | :31:13. | |
style, this appearing to reveal the skyline of Tokyo. We've left | :31:14. | :31:18. | |
Sugarloaf Mountain, we swap it for Mount Fuji. The silhouettes of the | :31:19. | :31:27. | |
Tokyo Tower, Rainbow Bridge and a model of the Skytree, it really is | :31:28. | :31:35. | |
one of Tokyo's land marks, appears out of the height, following the | :31:36. | :31:39. | |
Prime Minister. See you in Tokyo. That was one classy, confident taste | :31:40. | :31:40. | |
of what's to come perhaps. All began with the Japanese Prime | :31:41. | :31:53. | |
Minister appearing as Super Mario. I'm delightly disappointed it wasn't | :31:54. | :31:57. | |
Kenneth Branagh but, the Prime Minister will do. | :31:58. | :32:06. | |
We've had a vision of 2020. Now we're going to reflect on the last | :32:07. | :32:08. | |
fortnight here in Rio. There's Thomas Bach and Carlos | :32:09. | :32:37. | |
Arthur Nuzman is being introduced, gave a passionate speech at the | :32:38. | :32:39. | |
Opening Ceremony. He was the proudest man alive at the Opening | :32:40. | :32:43. | |
Ceremony, he said. I think he's fit to burst here tonight. President of | :32:44. | :32:46. | |
the Rio 2016 organising committee. Hungarian athletes trying to get | :32:47. | :33:27. | |
back to their seats in the background. But Carlos Arthur Nuzman | :33:28. | :33:28. | |
to speak first. Good evening. HE SPEAKS PORTUGUESE | :33:29. | :33:54. | |
The rain comes to celebrate the Games of the 31 st Olympiad. The | :33:55. | :34:07. | |
president of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach. | :34:08. | :34:19. | |
CHEERING We already know this much, the best place in the world is here, | :34:20. | :34:38. | |
he says. "I invite all of you to celebrate | :34:39. | :34:59. | |
with us this evening, this triumph of sport and of youth." Let's | :35:00. | :35:05. | |
celebrate together this victory of the sport, the Games of Rio. They | :35:06. | :35:12. | |
will stay forever. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | :35:13. | :35:35. | |
We celebrate the Olympic flame together with all of you. | :35:36. | :35:57. | |
Rio let history show its beautiful, but the competence to organise the | :35:58. | :36:01. | |
most important event of the world. This is about the city and it's | :36:02. | :36:16. | |
still a magic place. The Games in Rio was a great | :36:17. | :36:58. | |
challenge, but a challenge with success. | :36:59. | :37:11. | |
I will say it again, I'm proud of my city, I'm proud of City and my | :37:12. | :37:27. | |
people. We are vibrant people. And the lovers... Hello? | :37:28. | :37:36. | |
Yes, we're different from north to south, east to west and it's this | :37:37. | :37:43. | |
diversity that makes us so unique, all Brazilians are Olympic heroes. | :37:44. | :37:46. | |
We cheer together, we celebrate together. | :37:47. | :38:01. | |
We'll win together, he says. All Brazilians are Olympic heroes. | :38:02. | :38:14. | |
We're vibrant together and celebrate together. These Olympic Games prove | :38:15. | :38:21. | |
that your sons, Brazil, do not flee from the battle. | :38:22. | :38:23. | |
CHEERING You've been to Brazil in green and | :38:24. | :38:39. | |
yellow and renewed the pride. ... In the yellow and red. | :38:40. | :38:47. | |
Sport has graced Rio with moments we will never forget. And Brazilian | :38:48. | :39:15. | |
fans have earned the Gold Medal. You are the Gold Medal of the people who | :39:16. | :39:20. | |
come to see the Games in all the planet. | :39:21. | :39:29. | |
I want to thank the support of everyone who has helped organise our | :39:30. | :39:34. | |
Games. The three levels of government, the International | :39:35. | :39:42. | |
Olympic Committee, the Brazilian confederations, Olympic sports | :39:43. | :39:42. | |
officials. My special affection to our tireless | :39:43. | :39:54. | |
volunteers. The volunteers of our country and of | :39:55. | :40:09. | |
the world, we are proud of our volunteers. With a smile on their | :40:10. | :40:12. | |
face, they have put these Games together. | :40:13. | :40:33. | |
My special tribute to you, dear athletes, you are the stars of this | :40:34. | :40:38. | |
great event. You inspire the youth in believing that a dream can come | :40:39. | :40:40. | |
true. You wrote a new page in our Olympic | :40:41. | :40:49. | |
history. You are the heroes. 27 world records and 91 Olympic | :40:50. | :41:28. | |
records. We've organised our marvellous | :41:29. | :41:40. | |
Olympics in the marvellous city. The Olympic world belongs to all of | :41:41. | :42:04. | |
us, no frontiers, now open to new horizons, new regions of the planet. | :42:05. | :42:08. | |
When we won the Games in Copenhagen, I said Rio are ready to make | :42:09. | :42:11. | |
history. Rio has delivered history, from my | :42:12. | :42:50. | |
heart. And good luck for Tokyo 2020. Thank you. | :42:51. | :42:59. | |
Nice, soothing honey and lemon drink for Carlos Arthur Nuzman now. Sorry, | :43:00. | :43:11. | |
with the emotion, to invite the international Olympic president, and | :43:12. | :43:13. | |
Olympic champion, Thomas Bach, my great friend and friend of Brazil! | :43:14. | :43:21. | |
CHEERING Obrigado, Cariocas. Congratulations, | :43:22. | :43:37. | |
Brazil. Dear fellow Olympians. That the president, Carlos Nuzman, | :43:38. | :43:54. | |
mine colleague and friend, distinguished Brazilian authorities, | :43:55. | :44:00. | |
dear Olympic friends around the world. Brazil, we love you. | :44:01. | :44:06. | |
CHEERING And they love that. Thank you for | :44:07. | :44:22. | |
your warm hospitality. Over the last 16 days a united Brazil inspired the | :44:23. | :44:29. | |
world. In difficult times for all of us, with its irresistible joy of | :44:30. | :44:35. | |
life. You have many reasons to be proud. These Olympic Games | :44:36. | :44:43. | |
demonstrated that diversity is an enrichment for everyone. These | :44:44. | :44:49. | |
Olympic Games were a celebration of diversity. Our Olympic values | :44:50. | :45:03. | |
created unity in this diversity. A big thank you goes to the organising | :45:04. | :45:13. | |
committee of these Games and its president, Carlos Nuzman, our | :45:14. | :45:15. | |
gratitude in particular to the international federations, the | :45:16. | :45:21. | |
National Olympic committees, and the sponsors, for their invaluable | :45:22. | :45:25. | |
contribution. To the success of these Games. Thank you to all the | :45:26. | :45:31. | |
volunteers. CHEERING | :45:32. | :45:40. | |
Your smiles have warned our hearts. Thank you to you, the Olympic | :45:41. | :46:01. | |
athletes. You have amazed the world with your incredible performances. | :46:02. | :46:09. | |
You have shown us all the power of sport to unite the world. By | :46:10. | :46:15. | |
competing in friendship and respect, by living in harmony under one roof | :46:16. | :46:23. | |
in one Olympic Village, you are sending a powerful message of peace | :46:24. | :46:29. | |
to the whole world. Together we can go even further. Together we can | :46:30. | :46:38. | |
even aim higher. United in our diversity, we are even stronger. | :46:39. | :46:47. | |
Thank you, dear refugee athletes. CHEERING | :46:48. | :47:00. | |
You have inspired as with your talent and human spirit. You are a | :47:01. | :47:07. | |
symbol of hope for millions of refugees in the world. We will | :47:08. | :47:14. | |
continue to be at your side after this Olympic Games. We arrived in | :47:15. | :47:24. | |
Brazil as guests. Today, we depart as your friends. | :47:25. | :47:34. | |
CHEERING You will have a place in our hearts | :47:35. | :47:37. | |
forever. These were a marvellous Olympic | :47:38. | :47:59. | |
Games the marvellous city. -- in the marvellous city. These were a | :48:00. | :48:02. | |
marvellous Olympic Games in the marvellous city. These Olympic Games | :48:03. | :48:10. | |
are leaving a unique legacy for generations to come. History will | :48:11. | :48:18. | |
talk about the Rio de Janeiro before and a much better Rio de Janeiro | :48:19. | :48:25. | |
after the Olympic Games. The International Olympic Committee | :48:26. | :48:33. | |
would like to honour the people who made this miracle happen. 110 years | :48:34. | :48:42. | |
ago the founder of the modern Olympic Games, Pierre de Coubertin, | :48:43. | :48:50. | |
created a unique award, the Olympic Cup. Tonight this Olympic Cup goes | :48:51. | :49:08. | |
to Cariocas. It goes to the people of Rio, the Cariocas. The IOC has | :49:09. | :49:16. | |
invited six of you to accent this Cup here tonight -- accept this Cup. | :49:17. | :49:42. | |
From the United Nations, Marcelo. From the transformer project, | :49:43. | :49:53. | |
Nitoglia. -- Natalia. From the 2000 | :49:54. | :50:09. | |
volunteers, Michelle. From the construction team that helps | :50:10. | :50:12. | |
transform the city, Francisco and Renato. He gets a big cheer, Renato, | :50:13. | :50:21. | |
look out for him later. He may well feature, he's a special talent. | :50:22. | :50:37. | |
CHEERING An award for the Cariocas, the | :50:38. | :50:43. | |
people of Rio de Janeiro. After 16 glorious Olympic days I now | :50:44. | :51:12. | |
have to perform my last official duty here in Rio de Janeiro. I | :51:13. | :51:21. | |
declare the Games of the XXXI Olympiad closed. In accordance with | :51:22. | :51:38. | |
tradition, I call upon the youth of the world to assemble four years | :51:39. | :51:42. | |
from now in Tokyo, Japan. To celebrate with others the Games of | :51:43. | :51:51. | |
the 32nd Olympiad. Bye-bye, Rio. CHEERING | :51:52. | :52:02. | |
So the formalities are over. And some more performance art in the | :52:03. | :52:09. | |
making, I fancy. Yes, this section pays tribute to | :52:10. | :52:23. | |
the landscape designer Burle Marx, part of is ill's artistic Vanguard, | :52:24. | :52:30. | |
a series of choreographed moves next to a multicoloured projection which | :52:31. | :52:33. | |
allude to overhead views of the artist's designs and the song | :52:34. | :52:47. | |
Warlord two of the designs will be very familiar to us now, -- warlord | :52:48. | :54:51. | |
two. Avenida Atlantica, one of the views. | :54:52. | :55:42. | |
and now we move on to the extinguishing of the flame. | :55:43. | :57:05. | |
And it's the tropical rain that's been falling naturally tonight that | :57:06. | :57:13. | |
slowly and gently will extinguish Rio's Olympic flame. | :57:14. | :57:35. | |
This song speaks of the permanence of life. -- impermanence of life. | :57:36. | :57:48. | |
Tempo Que Durar by Marisa Monte and Adriana Calcanhoto | :57:49. | :58:06. | |
Olympic champion, Thomas Bach, my great friend and friend of Brazil! | :58:07. | :59:28. | |
The flame which has burned throughout these Games, and a torch | :59:29. | :59:36. | |
in a relay, many months before, goes out. | :59:37. | :59:57. | |
The water that puts the fire out, also allows new life to grow. | :59:58. | :00:05. | |
Another tree, the symbol of the Opening Ceremony, grows up from the | :00:06. | :00:09. | |
stadium floor, reminding us once again of the tree after which this | :00:10. | :00:11. | |
nation was born. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | :00:12. | :01:00. | |
The flame may have gone, but we can still look forward to the colour of | :01:01. | :01:08. | |
carnival and we end with the anthem of the city, Cidade Maravilhosa. As | :01:09. | :01:17. | |
Thomas Bach said, a marvellous Olympics in THE marvellous city. | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
This song is the official anthem of the city. It's a city of music. Its | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
airport named after a composer, its anthem is this, a carnival march. | :01:27. | :01:37. | |
These are the samba singers, who have mastered the practice of | :01:38. | :02:13. | |
warming up the public. The samba school is not really schools, | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
they're gathering of certain neighbourhoods who come together to | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
outdo the others in carnival. Here he is, Renato Sorriso. He was | :02:20. | :06:58. | |
filmed dantsing with his broom -- dancing with his broom and became an | :06:59. | :07:09. | |
overnight sensation. These traditional street carnival | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
songs, people in this city have learned as kids and passed on from | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
generation to generation. I'm assured the woman with him is a | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
famous model, Izabel Goulart. A lot of eyes on Renato Sorriso. He is | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
hugely popular in Brazil. The whole floor of this Maracana | :07:28. | :07:41. | |
Stadium is ablaze with colour now. The legendary Pele has just tweeted, | :07:42. | :08:40. | |
"Brazil welcomed the world with open arms and showed our life in both | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
work and play." The samba drome has hosted the | :08:43. | :09:47. | |
archery, but this is what it was made for. One other thing that | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
carnival is famous for are the giant floats of the procession. Here comes | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
one now. Confetti tumbles down from the roof of the Maracana. | :10:00. | :12:29. | |
CHEERING And exuberant celebration for this | :12:30. | :16:17. | |
amazing part of the world. Rio has done Brazil and South America. Thank | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
you, Brazil. Obrigado. That was the party that didn't want to end but it | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
is over. Good night from others here in the noise and colour of the | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
Maracana. Thank you for watching. We shall do it again in Tokyo in four | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
years' time. Most of all thank you to Brazil, thank you to Rio de | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
Janeiro. CLARE BALDING: | :16:39. | :16:48. | |
Many thanks to Hazel Irvine and Andrew Cotter on the commentary on | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
the closing ceremony. So it ends with street carnival, Samba, Street | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
fireworks as the flame is extinguished, Rio rocking to the | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
sights and sounds of sport, but the torch has been passed on to Tokyo | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
and it will most certainly be different in four years' time. It | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
may be better attended, it may be better organised, but Steve Cram | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
Redgrave are here in the studio. How will you Rio? Can I use the firework | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
analogy? If you have a box of fireworks its spectacular, there's | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
been a lot of that, there's been a few duds and a few things that | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
didn't thrill and I think I will be my abiding memory. No Games has to | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
be perfect, apart from London, of course, and it's a spectacular | :17:35. | :17:36. | |
place, and the people are wonderful, but there are a lot of things, maybe | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
the organisation that was the problem. The sport was fabulous, | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
memorable. What about you? Colour, we expected a loss of colour, we | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
have seen a lot of colour in the closing ceremony. The passion, any | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
time the Brazilian was competing, the raw, even if it was a half | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
filled stadium was incredible, but it comes down to the performance and | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
the performance of all the athletes from all the countries have been | :18:04. | :18:05. | |
amazing, especially our own, they have really stood up to the mark | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
where we were thinking this could not be as good as London, | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
performance wise it's been absolutely fantastic. Me because of | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
the time difference as well the chance for gymnastics and diving and | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
hockey, cycling, look at Kate Richardson-Walsh, carrying the flag | :18:22. | :18:23. | |
at the closing ceremony, for those sports to really get the chance of | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
the athletes having a profile. It does come down to the performance, | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
if you are doing the performance you will get the coverage as well. It's | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
one of the problems in some ways. We've got so many talented athletes | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
doing such good competition and getting the results, they are | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
getting smaller and smaller chunks, because we don't have the time to | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
get them seen. Some will be missing in Tokyo. We will see new stars | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
there and a lot of younger athletes here making -- may be hungry, to see | :18:55. | :19:03. | |
how they progress in four years' time. Lets not forget, Bolt had a | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
rotten first Olympics, in 2004. Then Mo had a very disappointing first | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
Olympics, so there are people who are here who have not been | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
disappointing perhaps, but have done well, and will be better in Tokyo. | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
Actually, what you were just saying thereabout other sports getting | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
their day in the sun, Bolt casts a big shadow, a nice shadow over our | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
sport, and it will allow the new shoots to come up, if you know what | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
I mean. Like the athlete who broke Michael Johnson's record and has | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
hardly been talked about. The sport has stars, it has stars in Britain | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
and internationally, and in Tokyo we will see some of them have their | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
chance now, now that Bolt moves on, and I look forward to that. The big | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
concern now for Brazil is what happens with the Paralympics. It | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
starts two weeks on Wednesday. Ticket sales they say are around | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
13%. I mean, that is desperately worrying, isn't it? There has been | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
all sorts of rumours in the last couple of days because of the ticket | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
sales not being good. They were relying on that money. There has | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
even been talk about cutting some of the events. How can you train for | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
four years, some for longer, plan to be here, and even two weeks before | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
not fully decide if they are going to have all the events. Hopefully | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
they will. It may a plea of getting some money in from somewhere, but | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
what can they do at this stage? Talking of money, the IOC still has | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
an awful lot of money to spend and interesting choices to make us to | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
where it might be able to support countries that need it and where to | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
spend that money in places like drug testing. Well, actually that last | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
bit I think is so important. Wada doesn't have enough money. UK | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
anti-doping have had their funding cut in real terms. Yet everyone is | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
animated about this. If we are so animated, and we should be, and the | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
Russian issue obviously highlighted that around the world, and that will | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
carry on. Our sport still has Russia suspended. The IOC, and I'm going to | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
say this now, and its sponsors, and to be fair money that comes from | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
television, the money the IOC gets from people wanting to be part of | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
the Olympics also has to be used to ensure we trust it, that we trust | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
what we are looking at, and that we can have some faith in what we're | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
watching, and we can put pressure on the Russias of this world come into | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
this arena in as fair a way that we can manage. It will never be | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
perfect, it will never will be, there will always be people trying | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
to cheat. But we have to invest more in that, particularly drug testing | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
and particularly in Congress, we've talked about other countries not | :21:54. | :21:55. | |
winning medals and we have to make sure they are mid-dash-macro they | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
are winning medals in the right way. We're not saying they are not. It's | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
difficult in third World countries, they don't have money, funding, | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
lottery, so they have to get it perhaps from the IOC and I don't see | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
any reason why the IOC is a fairly wealthy organisation and why they | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
don't spend a bit more doing that. I agree with that totally, I would go | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
one step further. The lead has to come from the IOC. They are the body | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
that should be leading this. But the richest sporting nations should be | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
asked to chip in to it as well. I'm sure that Great Britain would be | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
part of that. We want to see clean sports. What clean sport is out | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
there should be promoted. Let's try and get one step ahead than being | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
one step behind all the time. I just love the fact that not only have we | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
able to watch, enjoy sport and marvel at sporting achievement for | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
16 days, we have been able to discuss it as well. You do it so | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
well. Thank you to Steve Cram, Steve Redgrave, to everyone who has won | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
medals and competed, to everyone who has watched, and who has worked on | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
this BBC production because it takes a lot of people to pull all this | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
together. Tonight, for the very last time from BBC sport here in Rio, we | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
say thank you for watching, thank you for all your feedback, and | :23:12. | :23:12. | |
goodbye. # Birds flying high | :23:13. | :23:36. | |
# You know how I feel # Sun in the sky | :23:37. | :23:47. | |
# You know how I feel # Breeze drifting on by | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
# You know how I feel # It's a new dawn | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
# It's a new day # It's a new life | :23:59. | :24:08. | |
# For me. # And I'm feeling good #. | :24:09. | :24:19. | |
Goals for Great Britain. Andy Murray is a double Olympic gold-medallist. | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
The Welsh wonder strikes gold again. Olympic gold for Great Britain. | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
Usain Bolt got sick, a magnificent seven. The Olympic cycle. | :24:30. | :24:47. | |
# You know how I feel # It's a new dawn | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
# It's a new day # It's a new life | :24:53. | :25:03. | |
# Oh, yeah, I'm feeling good #. What a magnificent moment. Alistair | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
Brownlee, the Olympic triathlon champion. They succumbed to the | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
inevitable, bowed to his superiority, Mo Farah wins the gold. | :25:13. | :25:23. | |
# Dragonfly out in the sun # You know what I mean | :25:24. | :25:31. | |
# Don't you know extraordinary, Michael Phelps. The triple triple, | :25:32. | :25:43. | |
he has done it. That's what I mean # And this whole world is a new | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
world # Our whole world for me #. | :25:49. | :25:56. | |
Nicola Adams lets out a triumphant roar. | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
# You know how I feel # You know how I feel | :26:04. | :26:11. | |
# Freedom is mine # And I know how I feel | :26:12. | :26:18. | |
# It's a new dawn # It's a new day | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
# It's a new life for me # It's a new dawn | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
# It's a new day # It's a new life for me | :26:26. | :26:38. | |
# And I'm free #. Laura Trott is Britain's most | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
successful female Olympian of all time. Max Whitlock, double Olympic | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
champion. It's a gold medal. Mo Farah is going to get the double | :26:49. | :26:50. | |
double. | :26:51. | :26:54. |