XINHUA-BELTA Photo on August 22, Rio de Janeiro / BELTA/Correspondent. At the well-known stadium "Maracanã" the closing ceremony of 2016 Summer Olympics to Rio de Janeiro came to the end, the correspondent reports Belarusian cable agency "Belta".
At a ceremony on stadium under a pouring rain there passed three thousand volunteers, traditional parade of athletes took place also. The flag of the Belarusian Olympic team was carried by by the silver prize-winner of 2016 Summer Olympics Tikhon Yvan.
the Head of the organizing committee of Games of 2016 Nuzman Carlos noted that Brazil can be proud of holding so large-scale sporting event." Rio showed the competence of the organization of the most important event of the sports world. Now this city became even better. It was the big call for us. Now we can declare that really coped with the Olympic Games organization", - Nuzman Carlos told.
the Belarusian team took the 40th place in all-team medal competition 2016 Summer Olympics. In a moneybox of the national team of 9 medals: Goncharov Wladyslaw, won gold in competitions of jumpers on a trampoline became the Olympic champion. Silver medals were won by fighters Naumova Darya, Streltsov Vadim (weightlifting), Maria Mamoshuk (female fight), Tikhon Yvan (track and field athletics), owners of bronze medals became fighters Gamzatov Dzhavid, Saidov Ibrahim, the swimmer Gerasimenya Alexander and crew of a kayak four Makhneva Margaret, Lepeshko Nadezhda, Khudenko Olga, Litvinchuk Marina.
After colourful representation International Olympic Committee chapter International Olympic Committee Thomas Bakh in the performance gave appreciation to carrying out Games to Brazil ". Athletes, you shook the world by your great performances and showed how it is possible to unite the world, living under one roof in one village, you sent the strong message to the whole world. We arrived to Brazil as guests, and we leave friends. It were magnificent Games in the magnificent city", - Thomas Bakh noted.
of Slips and annoying misunderstanding during the Olympic Games was enough. However Brazilians during the Olympic Games tried to correct everything quickly.
In final day of competitions in the media village because of a night pouring rain all power supply system failed. Organizers eliminated a problem by means of powerful mobile generators of Japanese production.
the Following XXXII summer Olympic Games in 2020 the capital will accept Japan Tokyo.
