The Olympic Games minute 2016: flame goes out on Rio

5 Mongolia's naked fury

Mongolian officials stripped off and hurled their shoes to the floor in protest at a wrestler losing out on bronze

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A Mongolian official strips off
A Mongolian official strips off. Photograph: Nic Bothma/EPA

4 Semenya faces more scrutiny

South African comfortably won the Rio 800m final but the IAAF plans to lodge case with Cas against hyperandrogenic athletes

Read Andy Bull’s piece here

Caster Semenya
Caster Semenya. Photograph: Mike Egerton/PA

3 A success?

Despite concerns about Zika, empty seats and doping, Rio delivered moments of grace and purity where athletic achievement drowned out everything else

Read Barney Ronay’s Rio wrap

Usain Bolt takes a bow
Usain Bolt takes a bow. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

2 Rio eye candy

Feast your eyes on our photographer Tom Jenkins’s best images from Rio 2016

The gallery in full

China’s cycling helmet
China’s cycling helmet. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

1 Farewell Rio, hello Super Mario

The Games closed amid driving rain and fireworks with a ceremony that was largely celebratory and included a bizarre turn from Japan’s PM

Owen Gibson’s report

Japan's PM
Tokyo powers up. Photograph: Yu Nakajima/AP