Rio Olympics games 2016  come to an end with a new  excitement to meet again in Tokyo in 2020 at the Maracanã Stadium. Brazil and the world on Sunday bid farewell to the Olympic Games with a glittering ceremony. The Closing ceremony highlighted  athletes, shrouded in plastic ponchos and smiling through the rain bidding their farewell to the Olympic in the Brazilian regional song and dance, electronica, samba and marching tunes. With dancers dressed as colorful birds, fiddlers and fireworks, Rio drummed and stomped its way to a happy, sopping, final note before passing the baton to Tokyo, the next host city, and more artificial rain doused the torch.

Carlos Arthur Nuzman, the president of the Rio Olympic Committee, told the crowd that hosting the Games in Rio was a “great challenge,” but one that was met with success.

 

The governor of Tokyo, Yuriko Koike, accepted the flag from International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach and Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes, signalling the end of the 2016 Games and the transition.

The Rio2016 Games – the first-ever Olympics to witness the participation of a Refugee Olympic Team – came to an end in a colourful explosion of music and dance.