Sentence examples for flag handover from inspiring English sources

That cynicism and overkill are as much part of the Olympiad cycle as the flag handover.

The flag handover, of which he is executive producer, will be a taste of what is to come in Rio.

Just the somber flag handover ceremony -- featuring the "priestesses of Olympia" enacting rituals of ancient Greece -- showed a city's mind-set that is far different from Sydney's "Let's Party" theme for the closing ceremony.

Yup, face it: the combination of old rocker, miscast female sublebrity, and MC BoJo hasn't looked this winsome since Britain filled eight minutes of the Beijing Olympic Games closing ceremony with a Jimmy Page guitar solo, Leona Lewis and Boris arsing about with the flag handover.

"The flag handover was a fantastic spectacle and I hope all the people at home who saw it on television enjoyed it as much as I did," he said.

9 45 p.m.: Now for the flag handover ceremony from Rio de Janeiro to Tokyo.

In his experience, flag handovers are always criticized as being banal.

When Boris Johnson accepted the handover flag, Britain had finished the 29th Olympiad fourth in the medal tally with 19 gold medals, and 47 medals in total - our best performance in exactly 100 years.

His departure comes weeks before he was due to take part in the handover of the Olympic flag at the Games' closing ceremony in Rio de Janeiro in his role as leader of the event's next host city.

In the handover ceremony, the Olympic flag was handed over from Teo Ser Luck, acting as the Mayor of Singapore, through Jacques Rogge, to Ji Jianye, Mayor of Nanjing, China, the host city of the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.

As usual, the closing ceremony will end with the official handover of the Olympic flag to Yuriko Koike, governor of Tokyo, host of the 2020 Games, and the extinguishing of the Olympic flame.