The closing ceremony of the Rio Paralympic Games took place in front of 45,000 spectators at the Maracana stadium on Sunday. It brought Brazil's run of hosting mega-sports events to an end after ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Pele will not appear at the Olympics closing ceremony on Sunday, organisers said on Friday, meaning Brazil's most famous sportsman has played no formal part in the Games.

New ways of watching are fragmenting audiences, but around half the world will have caught some part of the Olympics on traditional TV this year by the time of the closing ceremony. By Scott ...