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With Rio Over, Looking Ahead To The Summer Olympics In Tokyo

Fireworks explode above the Maracana Stadium at the end of the closing ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic games on Aug. 21, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
Fireworks explode above the Maracana Stadium at the end of the closing ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic games on Aug. 21, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

Note: This BBC interview can be heard in the Here & Now podcast or with the WBUR app.

The Summer Olympic Games in Rio ended with a spectacular closing ceremony and the official handover to Tokyo, which will host the games four years from now.

Here & Now's Meghna Chakrabarti speaks with the BBC's Camilla Costa in Rio about how the games went, and about what's ahead in 2020.

Guest

Camilla Costa, BBC Brazil reporter. She tweets @_camillacosta.

This segment aired on August 22, 2016. The audio for this segment is not available.

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