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And now for the last look. this morning after 19 days of competition and 339 medal events, the olympic flame was at last extinguished to mark the end of tokyo's closing ceremonies. there are plenty of critiques to make about these games, but it's also undeniable that this year more than ever, the olympic games stood as a testament to perseverance. i'm not talking about the perseverance of individual athletes, impressive though it was, but rather the collective perseverance that made these games possible. the tokyo olympics was a mammoth operational feat. it involved getting some 11,000 athlete...

Tokyo summer games are down to their final hours before the olympic flame is extinguished and everyone goes home. blake essig is standing by in tokyo. i know organizers are playing things close to the vest about the closing ceremony. but what can you tell us? >> reporter: it ends where it all started right here at the new national stadium. but we don't know much about the closing ceremony but i can tell you that they have been rehearsing all day. and what we do know is that the theme is the world we share, organizers say the idea being that even if the world can't be together, we can all share...

And now for the last look. this morning after 19 days of competition and 339 medal events, the olympic flame was at last extinguished to mark the end of tokyo's closing ceremonies. there are plenty of critiques to make about these games, but it's also undeniable that this year more than ever, the olympic games stood as a testament to perseverance. i'm not talking about the perseverance of individual athletes, impressive though it was, but rather the collective perseverance that made these games possible. the tokyo olympics was a mammoth operational feat. it involved some 11,000 athletes into j...

Are. and you -- and you handled yourself with such grace and such decency and just you made me so, damn proud. >> well, that was president biden speaking with team usa, today, just moments before the final day kicked off at the tokyo olympics. in less than 24 hours, the olympic flame will be extinguished but not before the highly-anticipated u.s.-japan women's basketball final and a half-dozen other events. the u.s. is running away with the total-medal count but full-bragging rights will come down to this final day, as the u.s. and china are, currently, neck and neck in the race for gold. cnn'...

After falling during the 800 meter, these runners from the u.s. and botswana finished the race arm in arm. a legacy of kindness and camaraderie. outshining even the olympic flame. will ripley, cnn, tokyo. >> a great piece from will and shoutout from u.s. baseball team. silver medal, my guys. i love watching it. tonight, we'll take you to a community in south dakota where people live in converted military bunkers because of their fears about the outside world. >> who knows what's really going to happen. wake up the next morning and it's going to be chaos, a gradual slow thing and say, you