olympic closing ceremony 2021 opera singer

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The Paralympics start up on Tuesday August 24. If you already miss the Games, don’t worry. The Tokyo Olympics went out with a big bang as bright fireworks shot up into the sky, accompanied by a simple message reading ‘arigato’ (thank you) printed along the screen inside the stadium. When the song finished, a rendition of Claude Debussy’s ‘Clair de Lune’ played as the Olympic flame was finally extinguished. After their touching words, the 32nd Olympiad was brought to a close with a musical performance by Shinobu Otake and the Suginami Junior Chorus who sang 'Hoshi Meguri no Uta’. The handover to Paris was followed by speeches from Thomas Bach and Seiko Hashimoto, the head of the Tokyo 2020 organising committee. You can see the sporty part of the video above. Emmanuel Macron, the President of France, also made an appearance on top of the Eiffel Tower. It was a welcoming sight, as most summer festivals have been cancelled in Japan this year.Ī short snippet of what we can expect from the Paris 2024 Games was also shown, with plenty of Hollywood-worthy BMX action and break dancing or ‘breaking’, which will be introduced as a new Olympic sport in 2024. Photo: Steph Chambers/Getty Imagesīack in the Japan National Stadium, a mini bon odori festival was set up across the stadium floor, with dancers showing off their moves. The video then took us to Akita prefecture for a showcase of the Nishimonai bon odori dance before heading to Gifu for the Gujo odori dance. The video began with a traditional Ainu dance performed against the gorgeous backdrop of Hokkaido before moving on to the tropical islands of Okinawa, where an Okinawan Eisa dance is performed. The performance opened into a video montage of traditional regional dances across Japan spanning from Hokkaido to Okinawa. He is also an accomplished team canoeist, having won bronze and silver medals in the team category at past European Championships in Prague and Vienna.The performers at the Olympic Games #Tokyo2020 #ClosingCeremony have been outstanding! /p81INmmM3kĪ big thank you was given to the Olympic volunteers before a taiko drum performance kicked off an interpretive dance by Aoi Yamada. A very promising canoeist while still competing in the youth categories, Lukáš Rohan has since gone on to win silver at the adult C1 European Canoe Slalom Championships in Prague last year. There are signs that the son could surpass his father’s achievements if he holds on to the excellent form he has shown in recent years. The Mělník-born athlete has now almost equalled his father and coach Jiří Rohan, who won silver in canoeing at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona as well as another silver medal four years later in the double canoe category. I did make a slight mistake on post number four, but it made me try harder rather than mess with my head.” It may well have been the best performance of my life. “It was amazing! I am incredibly happy with my performance in the final round.

Nevertheless, it was with happiness rather than regret that the Czech canoeist spoke to Czech Radio after he found out that he was a silver medallist. Lukáš Rohan | Photo: Kirsty Wigglesworth, ČTK/AP

Olympic closing ceremony 2021 opera singer