Final Weekend of Weekend of Olympic Games -ABC NEWS

Athletes competed for final medals as bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor carried the flag in the closing ceremony.
BEIJING - An Olympic Games plagued by COVID-19 worries, legislative issues, and later discolored by (another) Russian doping outrage is presently finished.

Following 16 days and 109 occasions, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics authoritatively finished Sunday with the conventional shutting function.

A little, however energetic, gathering of observers sat in the stands at Beijing's Bird's Nest arena during the harshly chilly night in the host city. Some did the wave and happily waved the Chinese banner while trusting that the night's merriments will begin.

Chinese President Xi Jinping sat close to International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach in the stands, watching the function unfurl.