After weathering a pandemic, a tsunami, an earthquake and blistering heat, the Tokyo Olympics are coming to a close on Sunday. When: The Closing Ceremony will take place on Sunday, August 8, 2021. …
2 a.m. to 7 a.m. ET: End of Olympics programming – USA7 p.m. to 8 p.m. ET: Coverage onOddly, little is known about Sunday’s Closing Ceremony. The IOC recently revealed that the event will be inspired by the motto “Worlds We Share,” which it says represents “the idea that each of us inhabits their own world.”
One thing is for sure: With daily Covid infections topping 5,000 this week in Tokyo, there will be no fans inside the 68,000-person capacity stadium for the event. There may be some outside. Hundreds of spectators gathered outside the building during the Games’ Opening Ceremony protesting the Olympics being run while Tokyo is under a state of emergency.
Baseball’s Eddy Alvarez and basketball superstar Sue Bird carried the flag for the U.S. at the start of the Games. U.S. javelin thrower and four-time Olympian Kara Winger was selected by a vote among fellow Team USA athletes to bear the flag in the Closing Ceremony on Sunday. The honor went to Simone Biles in Rio.
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