parading round to an empty stadium and some of the smaller countries have already sent all their athletes home because, remember, after you ve completed you ve got 48 hours before you have to return. they have to do have volunteers carrying their country s flags which felt a little bit sad as well and then they recreated inside the olympic stadium tonight scenes of tokyo, we saw a park scene, bmx s, a dj and what they were trying to do was give the athletes a sense of what this incredibly vibrant creative, amazing city is all about because they haven t been able to see it. they ve only been in the olympic village about their venues and they wanted to give them a little taste of it at the closing ceremony so moments like that, for me, actually felt a little bit poignant.
biles when she talked about her mental health, how tough it was do not have a family there with her but done right, of course, all the athletes came up to support each other and if we take simone biles he was there every day sporting her team mates even though she wasn t actually competing we saw that time and time again. they were trying to fill out the stands, they have their flags, they were cheering on their team mates at all of these events but, yes, it was poignant, i think is the word to use, and i don t know how much of the closing ceremony you saw but i felt that very much tonight, that there were these athletes parading round to an empty stadium and some of the smaller countries have already sent all their athletes home because, remember, after you ve completed you ve got 48 hours before you have to return. they have to do have volunteers carrying their country s flags which felt a little bit sad as well and then they recreated inside the olympic stadium tonight scenes of