RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - The Rio Olympics closing ceremony is underway on Sunday (Monday in Singapore) after Eliud Kipchoge's dominant marathon victory highlighted the final day of competition.
Athletes and officials from around the world are at the event at Rio's Maracana stadium which will bring down the curtain on South America's first Olympics.
On a wet and blustery final day, Kenya's Kipchoge, 31, shone with his seventh win in eight marathons, timing 2hr 8min 44sec to win by more than a minute.
Later, the US' basketball 'Dream Team' of NBA stars claimed the 306th and final gold of the Games with a crushing 96-66 win over Serbia.
Kipchoge topped off an athletics programme which saw Usain Bolt seal the sprint 'triple triple' in his final Games, but also went ahead without Russia who were suspended for state-orchestrated doping.
Michael Phelps capped his Olympic career in Rio, adding five gold medals to take his career haul to 23 - plus a silver, after his loss to Singapore's Joseph Schooling, a former childhood fan of the US swimmer.
On Sunday, Mongolia's Chagnaadorj Usukhbayar became the sixth weightlifter in Rio to fail a drugs test. He was kicked out after he was revealed to have used testosterone.
And police seized passports, phones and computers in a raid on the Irish Olympic office, following the arrest of Irish International Olympic Committee member Patrick Hickey over an alleged black market tickets scam.
"We are one of those sporting superpowers now," beamed UK Sport chief executive Liz Nicholl.
French fighter Tony Yoka won a split-decision against Britain's Joe Joyce to take the super-heavyweight title in boxing, where Uzbek fighters stole the show with two gold medals.
"The Japanese government will strive hard so you can participate in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics so you will be in your best condition, and work hard so it will be the best Olympics ever," Abe told the Japanese athletes.
