Tokyo 2020: Olympic torch goes out after closing ceremony marks end of Games – as it happened

• Unique Olympics ended as the Tokyo flame was extinguished
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5.08pm BST

Right, it is time to extinguish this live blog which, like the Olympic flame, has been burning brightly since 23 July. Thank you to everybody who has contributed to it - both here at the Guardian and to those of you reading wherever you are in the world. We hope you enjoyed the coverage and that the posts struck the right tone throughout what has been a unique Olympics during a pandemic. If you like what we do you can consider supporting our journalism here. The sporting action is not over in Tokyo, however. Put a date in your diary for 24 August, when the Paralympics opening ceremony begins. I will leave you with Martin Belam's Tokyo 2020 Olympics briefing. As Martin says, farewell and arigato.

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4.53pm BST

I will be shutting down this liveblog shortly but before I do have one last peek at the medal table. Eighty-six nations won medals and each athlete took some recycled mobile phone parts home with them, as you can see in this video.