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7A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 2016 FORD • LINCOLN • HYUNDAI 700 7th AVENUE • LONGVIEW, WA • 360-423-4321 LINCOLN LUXURY HOMETOWN SERVICE Lifetime roadside assistance with your new Lincoln 2016 Lincoln MKC Retail Cash: $2,250 0% APR for 60 months OAC AP Photo/Mark Humphrey Plumed figures appear as part of the closing ceremony in the Maracana stadium at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday. Samba, refl ections, pride in fi nal Rio Olympics party By PETER PRENGAMAN and MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO — Shaking to samba and express- ing a sense of longing with uniquely Brazilian words, Olympians and fans said good- bye to the Rio Games with one last big bash that was both reve- latory and a sigh of relief. The closing ceremony Sun- day celebrated the 16-day spec- tacle that was the Rio Games, which combined numerous highlights with ugly and even bizarre episodes that some- times overshadowed competi- tion. Cariocas — as Rio’s res- idents are known — weren’t swayed by the issues that led up to these Olympics, and braved rain and strong winds on the fi nal night to cap their moment in the worldwide spotlight. While South America’s fi rst Olympics are over, safely and with a grandiose fi nale, many problems remain. Still, Bra- zil showed Sunday it still defi - nitely knows how to party. “These were marvelous Olympic Games in the ‘mar- velous city,”’ said International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, playing off the “cidade maravilhosa” nickname of Brazil’s postcard city of invit- ing coastlines, year-round sun and lush tropical vegetation. While the stadium erupted in applause at that declara- tion, a few minutes later there were boos of sadness when Bach announced: “I declare the Games of the XXXI Olympiad closed.” The closing ceremony in iconic Maracana Stadium was also meant to take care of some business — formally signaling the transition to the 2020 Sum- mer Olympics in Japan. But Sunday’s party was all about Brazil, designed to be Yu Nakajima/Kyodo News Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe appears as the Nintendo game character Super Mario during the clos- ing ceremony at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday. Abe’s brief, but show-stop- ping, appearance as Super Mario offered a tantalizing glimpse at Tokyo’s plans for the 2020 games. more low-key than the opening, which focused heavily on Rio. The ceremony featured original footage of Alberto San- tos Dumont, the man that Bra- zilians recognize as the inven- tor of the airplane. The theme, “Brazilians can do with their bare hands,” was a nod to the emerging economy of the world’s fi fth most populous nation. Dressed in colorful feathers, dozens of dancers formed in the shape of the arches of Lapa, a popular area of Rio akin to Roman ruins, then morphed to make the shape of iconic Sug- arloaf before quickly changing again, this time to the offi cial 2016 symbol. Samba legend Martinho da Vila, whose tunes make their way into many popular tele- novelas, sang “Carinhoso,” or “Affectionate.” Olympians poured in under light rain, waving their fl ags while many shook their bod- ies to samba-infused pop that made the stadium feel like a Carnival parade. Britain’s ath- letes wore shoes with soles that lit up in changing colors of red, white and blue, while Tongan taekwondo athlete Pita Taufa- tofua danced onstage in a grass skirt as a DJ performed, repris- ing a moment that captured attention when he carried the fl ag for his country during the opening ceremony. The show widened its lens to greater Brazil, a mas- sive country with a land mass slightly larger than the conti- nental United States. There was a tribute to cave paintings of some of the fi rst inhabitants of the Americas, in Serra da Capi- vara, in Northeastern Brazil, today one of the nation’s poor- est regions. Spectators watched per- formers shake it to frevo, a fre- netic dance that — if it’s even possible — makes high-oc- tane samba seem like a staid ballroom affair. Holding small umbrellas, dancers jumped and marched while performing acrobatics. They shook it to “Vassou- rinhas,” which means “small brooms,” a popular song that was also the name of a famous club in the northeastern city of Recife. The show also built per- formances around “saudade,” which means anything from longing for someone to sadness to remembering good times. It is one of the most important words in Brazilian Portuguese. Lights fl ashed translations for the word in many lan- guages, and a group of women sang “Mulher Rendeira,” or “Lace-making Woman,” a nod to the country’s African heri- tage. Brazil was the last coun- try in the Americas to outlaw slavery, in 1888. Team USA takes Olympics medal race with ease in Rio By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer RIO DE JANEIRO — The U.S. Olympic Team made itself right at home in Rio. The British, they had a Games to savor as well. The host Brazilians got soccer gold that they craved, the Russians struggled on the heels of the exposure of a state-sponsored doping pro- gram, and the Chinese fi nished well below expectations. So went the medal race at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, where the Americans — with women leading the way — dominated both the gold and overall totals. The U.S. fi nished with 46 gold medals and 121 medals overall, its 51-total-medal margin over second-place China the largest in a non-boycotted Olympics in nearly a century. “This experience has been the dream of a lifetime for me,” said U.S. gymnast and closing ceremony fl ag-bearer Simone Biles, who won fi ve medals, four of them gold, in her fi rst Olympics. Olympics concluded Sunday, Aug. 21 TOP 10 MEDAL WINNERS G S B Total 1. United States 46 37 38 121 2. China 26 18 26 70 3. United Kingdom 27 23 17 67 4. Russia 19 18 19 56 5. Germany 6. France 17 10 15 42 10 18 14 42 7. Japan 12 8 21 41 8. Australia 8 11 10 29 9. Italy 8 12 8 28 Canada 4 10. 3 15 22 AP For the fourth consecutive games, U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps left with more medals than anyone else. He won six in Rio, while Biles and U.S. swimmer Katie Ledecky each won fi ve to lead to lead a big haul from American women. U.S. women left Rio with 27 golds — by far the most among any team of female Olympians at these games — and 61 medals total. U.S. track star Allyson Felix, now a six- time gold medalist and a win- ner of nine medals in all, was particularly delighted to learn that women are bringing more medals home to American than the men. “Got ’em,” Felix said, smiling. By now, the Americans winning the medal race is almost commonplace. But the signifi cance in Rio were the sheer amounts of hardware. The previous record for U.S. medals at a fully attended Olympics was 110, set at Bei- jing eight years ago. And the margin between fi rst and sec- ond in the overall medals race this year tops all others (the boycotted games of 1980 and 1984 excluded) since the Americans won 67 more med- als than Italy did at the 1932 Los Angeles Games. “We weren’t sure we were going to have that kind of suc- cess coming in,” said USOC CEO Scott Blackmun, not- ing the track and swimming teams had plenty of fi rst-time Olympians. 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