Winter Olympics top moments for Feb. 20: Beijing Closing Ceremony

The Closing Ceremony wrapped up the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, however not earlier than Nathan Chen punctuated his journey with a backflip, and Mikaela Shiffrin received a race.

BEIJING, China —

The 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing formally got here to an finish Sunday morning with the Closing Ceremony. If you happen to weren’t awake to see the ceremony stay, it is going to air once more throughout NBC’s Olympic Primetime Protection.

Earlier than the video games concluded there have been nonetheless loads of thrilling moments, together with determine skater Nathan Chen ending his gold medal-winning journey with a surprising efficiency, and skier Mikaela Shiffrin acquired her first win in an occasion after a disastrous begin in Beijing.

Determine skating gala

American Nathan Chen offers a liberating efficiency to finish his Olympic expertise through the determine skating gala. Throughout his routine, Chen landed an impeccable backflip punctuating his first gold medal on the Olympics.

Alpine snowboarding

Within the alpine snowboarding mixed workforce occasion, Mikael Shiffrin acquired her first win on the Beijing video games over Slovakia’s Rebeka Jancova, serving to the U.S. to advance out of the primary spherical. Sadly, the American workforce completed simply off the rostrum in fourth.

Cross-country snowboarding

American skier Jessie Diggins guts it out to win the twenty fifth and remaining U.S. medal of the Beijing Video games, taking silver within the 30km cross-country race whereas combating the lingering signs of meals poisoning.

Closing Ceremony

Athletes representing Staff USA enter Nationwide Stadium, often known as the “Chook’s Nest,” to ‘Ode to Pleasure’ through the Closing Ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Anybody who wasn’t awake early Sunday morning to look at stay has one other probability to see the ceremony in its entirety throughout NBC’s Olympic Primetime protection Sunday night time.