Tokyo: Eliud Kipchoge produced MasterClass Marathon and the United States gave China on the Tokyo Olympic medal table when the curtain fell on the biggest sporting program since the pandemic on Sunday.
After Kipchoge Marathon Win for Kenya, the United States scored a victory in a volleyball, tracking cycling and basketball onto the medal with 39 gold, only one in front of China.
Tokyo Olympic Medal Tallyhe 339 and the last gold medal went to the Serbia Putra Air Polo team, limiting the game which was in danger of cancellation after they became the first delayed Olympics last year.
Thirty-three sports have been contested in 16 days in the stadium which is mostly empty, with fans prohibited with the risk of coronavirus and athletes living in strict bio conditions.
“Some have talked about ‘Ghost’ games’,” said the Chief of the Thomas Bach Olympics to the International Olympic Committee session on Sunday.
“What we see here is that instead the athletes have brought the soul to the Olympics.” The Olympics were hit by a low Japanese support for the fear of super spreaders but officials stated that the record of Haul 27 gold medals, put the third Japanese on the table, had won the heart.
“We believe the spirit of our athletes who are earnest and all-out performance move people,” said Tsuyoshi Fukui, Chef de Mission for the Japanese team.
England ended the fourth with 22 gold and the Russian Olympic Committee, the team for Russian athletes after Russia was prohibited for systematic doping, was the fifth with 20.
A big name succession has failed to appear in Japan, where new sports skateboard, surfing, sports climbing and karate has been Bring the new young stars to the front.
But the Marathon World Record-Holder Kipchoge shows its class, kicking the closing stage and clocking 2HR 08min 38SEC to defend the 2016 title.
“I know there are many people who oppose this Olympics because of Coronavirus,” said a fan of flag, 47 years old on the marathon route that gave his name as Tsujita.
“But I’m glad it happened.
This is a very lifetime experience for everyone.” The marathon, moving north to Sapporo to avoid hot summer Tokyo, is one of several events to allow spectators.
Sunday closing ceremony will be held at the Olympic Stadium which is mostly empty, rounded up the extraordinary game carried out mostly without direct audience for billions of hearings throughout the world.
Fear of a large outbreak of proven basis in the Olympic contingent which was mostly vaccinated and 430 cases were taken during the match, including 32 in the Olympic Village.
But athletes have additional pressure from strict ‘bubbles’ conditions including commands to wear masks except competing, training, eating or sleeping.
The victory celebration has been low, with a quiet round of honor and rarely attended the medal ceremony.
But the emotions of competitors have been in full view.
Simone Biles superstar gymnastics gave the moment the most cheering moment when he was suddenly pulled out of the competition because of the battle of “twisties”, the mental block was disoriented.
Biles, widely recognized as the biggest gymnast in history, quite recovering to return for the last event, beam, claiming redemption bronze.
Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard became the first transgender woman who competed in the match and Quinn Canada to win the first transgender Olympics, with gold in female football.
In another highlight, the US men’s team won the fourth consecutive men’s basketball crown and US swimmer Caeleb Dressel assumed the Michael Phelps coat with five gold medals in the pool.
Among the end events on Sundays, Canada Cyclist Kelsey Mitchell took gold in a woman’s sprint while Jason Kenny won Keirin Putra to become the first Briton to win seven Olympic titles.
Americans started the second golden day behind China but the basketball degree and female volleyball and US track rider Jennifer Valente’s Omnium Victory put them on the final table.
Uzbekistan’s Bakhodir Jalolov beat the US Fighter Richard Torrez in a super-heavy boxing final, while the price of Lauren British and Irish Kellie Harrington also packed their gold.
The Olympic flag will now pass 2024 hosts Paris.
But the circus will regroup only in six months when Beijing, faced with the updated threat of boycott and emergency coronavirus, holding a winter match in February.
The top Olympic medal table as the game is delayed drawing to close
