The details of the Beijing closing ceremony are closely guarded. The rather bland title, “Together for a Shared Future,” doesn’t reveal much. But based on ceremonies of the recent past, it is possible to predict some of what we can expect to see when the event begins at 8 p.m. on Sunday in Beijing (7 a.m. Eastern time).
[In the United States, you can watch the ceremony on NBC or its streaming platform, Peacock.]
The athletes will arrive all together.
Unlike the opening ceremony, when athletes march in with their national delegations, Olympians attending the closing ceremony file into the stadium en masse, symbolically suggesting that we are all one.