Olympic Games are the leading international sporting event featuring summer and winter sports competitions. The Olympic Games are considered the world’s important sports competition with more than 200 nations participating

The closing ceremony of the Olympic Games takes place after all sporting events have concluded.

Flag-bearers from each participating country enter the stadium, followed by the athletes who enter together, without any national distinction.

Three national flags are hoisted while the corresponding national anthems are played:

the flag of the current host country; the flag of Greece, to honor the birthplace of the Olympic Games; and the flag of the country hosting the next Summer or Winter Olympic Games.

The president of the organizing committee and the IOC president make their closing

speeches, the Games are officially closed, and the Olympic flame is extinguished.

The athletes or teams who place first, second, or third in each event receive medals. A medal ceremony is held after each Olympic event is concluded.

The winner, second and third-place competitors or teams stand on top of a three-tiered rostrum to be awarded their respective medals.

After the medals are given out by an IOC member, the national flags of the three medalists are raised while

the national anthem of the gold medalist’s country plays.

Coubertin’s Olympic ideals are expressed in the Olympic creed:

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win

but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not

the triumph but the struggle.

The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

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