There will be music and speeches, and a handoff to Paris for the 2024 Games.
The details of the Tokyo Olympics closing ceremony are closely guarded before it begins. But based on the closing ceremonies of the recent past, we can still safely predict some of what we’ll see starting at 8 p.m. Tokyo time on Sunday night (7 a.m. Eastern). Follow our live updates here. Unlike in the opening ceremony, when athletes march in by country, they file into the stadium en masse at the closing ceremony, symbolically indicating that we are all one people.
