![Closing Ceremony Dancers create the incomplete Olympic Rings.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sochi-olympics-photos-closing-ceremony-04.jpg?quality=85&w=2400)
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Athletes, performers and flags mark the pageantry of the closing ceremony
![Performers take part in the closing ceremony for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics Performers take part in the closing ceremony.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sochi-olympics-photos-closing-ceremony-01.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![OLY-2014-CLOSING Performers take part in the closing ceremony.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sochi-olympics-photos-closing-ceremony-02.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Performers take part in the closing ceremony for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics Performers take part in the closing ceremony.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sochi-olympics-photos-closing-ceremony-03.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Closing Ceremony Dancers create the incomplete Olympic Rings.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sochi-olympics-photos-closing-ceremony-04.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Closing Ceremony The Russian flag is carried into the stadium.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sochi-olympics-photos-closing-ceremony-05.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![2014 Winter Olympic Games - Closing Ceremony The flags of the competiting nations enter the arena.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sochi-olympics-photos-closing-ceremony-06.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Sochi Olympics Closing Ceremony Performers wave the flags of participating nations.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sochi-olympics-photos-closing-ceremony-07.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Sochi Olympics Closing Ceremony Members of the Russian Olympic team walk on stage.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sochi-olympics-photos-closing-ceremony-08.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![OLY-2014-CLOSING A Russian military drum band performs.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sochi-olympics-photos-closing-ceremony-09.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Sochi Olympics Closing Ceremony A performer is suspended from helium-filled clouds.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sochi-olympics-photos-closing-ceremony-10.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Sochi Olympics Closing Ceremony An artist is suspended near a giant balloon meant to represent the moon.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sochi-olympics-photos-closing-ceremony-11.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![OLY-2014-CLOSING Performers dance during the Closing Ceremony.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sochi-olympics-photos-closing-ceremony-12.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![OLY-2014-CLOSING Artists perform.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sochi-olympics-photos-closing-ceremony-13.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Sochi 2014 - Closing Ceremony Actors perform.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sochi-olympics-photos-closing-ceremony-14.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Sochi Olympics Closing Ceremony Artists perform.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sochi-olympics-photos-closing-ceremony-15.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![2014 Winter Olympic Games - Closing Ceremony Performers celebrate Russian literature.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sochi-olympics-photos-closing-ceremony-16.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Russian pianist Matsuev performs during the closing ceremony for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics Russian pianist Denis Matsuev performs.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sochi-olympics-photos-closing-ceremony-17.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![2014 Winter Olympic Games - Closing Ceremony A chandelier in celebration of Russian music.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sochi-olympics-photos-closing-ceremony-18.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Sochi Olympics Closing Ceremony Dancers perform.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sochi-olympics-photos-closing-ceremony-19.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Sochi 2014 - Closing Ceremony The Flags of Russia, Greece and South Korea are raised.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sochi-olympics-photos-closing-ceremony-20.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Performers hold light sticks during the closing ceremony for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics Performers hold light sticks.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sochi-olympics-photos-closing-ceremony-21.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![2014 Winter Olympic Games - Closing Ceremony A balloon travels across the arena.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sochi-olympics-photos-closing-ceremony-22.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Olympic mascots are pictured in the stadium at the end of the closing ceremony for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics Olympic mascots perform in the stadium.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sochi-olympics-photos-closing-ceremony-23.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Russian President Vladimir Putin walks out from the presidential lounge to take his seat as he is introduced during the closing ceremony for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics Russian President Vladimir Putin walks out from the presidential lounge to take his seat as he is introduced.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sochi-olympics-photos-closing-ceremony-24.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![OLY-2014-CLOSING-CAULDRON The Olympic flame claudron is pictured just after being extinguished at the end of the Closing Ceremony.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sochi-olympics-photos-closing-ceremony-25.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
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