any dignitaries in attendance of the closing ceremony
Estonia's President Kersti Kaljulaid
France's Prime Minister Jean Castex and Sandra Castex
Japan's crown prince Fumihito
USA's ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield
Much of the artistic and cultural sections of the ceremony will adhere to social distancing guidelines and the majority of segments will be pre-recorded
Many sequences of the ceremony will be pre-recorded
This will be the first time in Olympic history that the presentation will be performed via limited spectator capacity from Paris as French performers could not travel to Japan due to the COVID-19 pandemic in France.
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''The flag will be passed by Yuriko Koike, the Governor of Tokyo, to IOC President Thomas Bach, who will then hand the Olympic flag over to Anne Hidalgo, the Mayor of Paris. It will be followed by the raising of the flag of France and the playing of its national anthem.''
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that moment