Rio de Janeiro (CNN)It was a wet, breezy and wild goodbye to the 2016 Olympic Games as Rio de Janeiro bowed out in a tempest of samba and rain inside the Maracana Stadium.
The night started with a force cut and finished with a blast of shading and fair, including a supermodel, a goliath parrot and several artists dressed as plants - in addition to Japan's head administrator in a startling outfit.
"I am the happiest man alive," Carlos Nuzman, president of the Rio 2016 arranging board, announced amid Sunday's end service.
"We are remarkable," he included. "Rio has conveyed history ... good fortunes to Tokyo 2020."
Christ the Redeemer, Sugarloaf Mountain and the Olympic rings were all regarded amid a carefree goodbye, with Brazil's social and aesthetic legacy likewise celebrated.
There was likewise an emphasis on "saudade" - a word approximately interpreted as wistfulness that is thought to just exist in the Portuguese dialect.
"These Olympic Games are leaving a one of a kind legacy for eras to come," International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said.
"History will discuss the 'Rio de Janeiro before' and the 'vastly improved Rio de Janeiro after the Games.'
"I announce Games of 2016 shut," he included. "I call upon the young of the world to collect in Tokyo, Japan for the 32nd Olympiad - bye, bye Rio!"
The time of the night devoted to Tokyo's facilitating of the following Games debilitated to take the appear, with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arriving the focal point of the audience masked as notorious computer game character Super Mario.
Most importantly, it was a night for Rio to celebrate. Notwithstanding concerns encompassing security and Zika, the Games had gone off to a great extent effortlessly.
The celebration environment was just hosed by the nearness of yet more unfilled seats, with the stadium showing up far underneath its 70,000 or more limit.
In spite of the downpour, Nuzman's inclination couldn't be soured.
"For you definitely know this much: the best place on the planet is here," he enthused. "It is currently.
"We should celebrate together this awesome triumph, this triumph of game, of youth.
"All through our offer to have the 31st Olympiad, we generally said that Rio was prepared, and we can now proclaim it.
"We did it: we conveyed fabulous Games.
"We did it. We made it."
