Tyler Harding
Olympic freestyle skier on BBC TV

It has to be Eileen Gu. Saying anyone else would be wrong. She killed it at this Games. She blew everything out of the water.

Graham Witcher: Not sure I'm ready for another closing montage just yet.

There are some serious emotional scenes set to music playing out at the top of this page right now. Click to get weepy.

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"When you're a professional athlete in a sport that sucks as much as speed skating sucks, you've got to find a way to make it suck a little less."

Sweden's double gold-medal winning speed skating Nils van der Poel explains a training regime that saw him take a two-year break after PyeongChang 2018, during which he served in the military and then took up ultra running.

These Games saw the British public gripped by curling once more.

After more than two weeks of sweeping and sliding, more tension than we'd like for an early morning, Great Britain leave with two medals.

This morning Eve Muirhead and her team secured that precious gold after a tumultuous competition while Bruce Mouat's men claimed silver on Saturday, missing out on gold in an agonising final against Sweden.

As you may have heard, Great Britain's curling team bagged gold earlier today.

Eve Muirhead and her team have not stopped snapping selfies and checking out their new neckwear since.

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The center stage within the venue is composed of 11,600 square metres of HD LED screen, which will imitate "a crystal clear ice surface" throughout the whole ceremony.

Katie Falkingham
BBC Sport in Beijing

I’ve arrived at the Closing Ceremony at the iconic Bird’s Nest Stadium. It looks incredible!

It’s a bit chilly (though nothing like I’ve experienced in the mountains over the last few weeks!). Thankfully, we’ve been supplied with a hat, gloves and a blanket.

A quick internet search suggests that it is a balmy 2C Katie. Practically shorts weather compared to most of the fortnight.

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That was how PyeongChang bade farewell to two weeks of eye-poppig jaw-dropping winter sport four years ago.

How will Beijing wave the Winter Olympians on their way this time around?

We are about to find out. The Closing Ceremony of the 2022 Games is coming up in a little under an hour.

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Fireworks.

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K-pop.

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A lit-up roller-blading bear.

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And Lindsey Vonn's 100-megawatt smile.

We will be back to deliver all the highlights and high jinks of the closing ceremony from 11:00 GMT.

But there is only one thing to leave you with in the meantime. This is how Eve Muirhead and her team swept to a glorious curling gold, 20 years on from Rhona Howie and the stone of destiny in Salt Lake City.

Enjoy, and see you soon.

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Eve Muirhead said that the memory of narrowly missing out on the podium four years ago in PyeongChang four years ago fuelled her on her way to gold this time around.

“Coming fourth in PyeongChang was incredibly tough,” she said. “It took me a long time to get over that and even now I still think of that shot.

“It was emotional for sure. I managed to hold (the tears) until the flag was getting raised.

“It's a moment that I've been waiting for for so many years. The girls have helped me become a better curler. They've also helped me become a better person and without them I wouldn't be here.”

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Bruce Mouat, speaking to BBC Sport on being nominated to be Team GB's flag-bearer for the closing ceremony:

"They told us as a five and that was an incredible moment, just having all the boys congratulate me as well. That gave me goose-bumps.

"Honestly I can't describe how it felt, overcome with emotion really."

On receiving the silver medal and being told on the same day:

"It was a big day. I don't think many days are going to get better than that, to be honest and just to have the opportunity to lead Team GB out - it means everything to me."

On how it will help him reflect on his Olympic experience:

Unfortunately me and Jen (Dodds) were too busy to go to the opening cerenony so just to have the opportunity to go to the Bird's Nest for the first time, to be holding the GB flag and to close off what has been an incredible month for me here - it's going to mean everything and I hope all of Britain can watch and to be proud of us."

Telling his mother:

"I did know, I wasn't sure if I was allowed to tell her but I did anyway! She burst into tears and I think she was in a pub somewhere with her partner. I think she was trying to hide the tears away from everyone but she's incredibly proud of me and she tells me all the time. So is my Dad.

"Both of them have supported me my entire career and I just can't thank them enough for everything that they've given me and they both mean the world to me."

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Britain's gold-medal winning curler Vicky Wright says she will be back on the wards working as a nurse in a week's time.

Her build-up to the Games was inevitably disrupted by the Covid pandemic, which brought her back to nursing full-time until the start of this year.

“I was working full-time up until 2019 when I joined Eve’s team. Then the Covid pandemic hit in 2020, and I went back to work full-time.

“I took eight weeks off, so it’s back to work when I get back from here. A week from today, I am back to work. I am really lucky to do both and really enjoy my nursing. I trained for four years to do that.

“To have the support of the girls at work to make everything here possible, I am really lucky. I can’t wait to show them this medal because it is just as much theirs as it is mine.”

Four golds have so far been won on the final day in Beijing, with the last one of the Games to be decided in the men's ice hockey final.

The main headline, of course, is that Great Britain's women's curling team defeated Japan 10-3 to win Team GB's first gold of the Games.

Elsewhere, GB's self-funded four-man bobsleigh team missed out on a medal, with Brad Hall's team finishing sixth...

Francesco Friedrich's German sled took the four-man bobsleigh gold, making Friedrich the first man to win both the two-man and four-man events at consecutive Games...

Austria won gold in the alpine skiing's delayed mixed team parallel event, beating Germany in the final...

And Norway's Johaug Therese won her third gold in the women's 30km cross-country ski.

Sticks and hats everywhere as the final hooter sounds and Finland win a first ever Olympic ice hockey gold medal with a 2-1 win over Russian Olympic Committee in the final.

John Jackson, who won bronze at Sochi as the pilot of the British four-man bobsleigh team, passes on his props to Team Muirhead.

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Bruce Mouat, the skip of the silver-medal winning men's curling team, will carry the flag for Great Britain in the closing ceremony later today. Mouat also reached the semi-finals of the mixed doubles alongside Jen Dodds.

“It is a massive honour to be invited to carry the flag for Team GB at the Closing Ceremony," he said.

"While we, as a team, didn't get the colour of medal we wanted, that apart I don’t think I could have taken more from this first Olympic experience, having been involved in competition from two days before the Opening Ceremony and all the way through to the final weekend, while winning Team GB’s first medal on the way.

"I am also very proud on behalf of our sport that we have led the British team out at the start and finish of the Games after Eve carried the flag at the Opening Ceremony.

"The Olympics represent our greatest opportunity to promote our sport and I am hoping we can fully capitalise on that in the weeks, months and years to come."

You see what they have done there?

Great Britain saved its best for the last day. A gold in the women's curling was the team's first of the Games.

Germany's dominance of the sliding sports continued with their four-man bob team coming up trumps.

Austria won gold as they went toe to toe with Germany in the mixed team parallel team final.

Norway's Johaug Therese won her third gold in the women's 30km cross-country ski, while Finland beat the Russian Olympic Committee in their gold-medal ice hockey face-off.

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Eve Muirhead has paid tribute to the help and advice she has had en route to victory from 2002 gold-winning skip (and BBC Sport pundit) Rhona Howie.

"Several months before I came here I was getting interviewed for a documentary about Rhona’s 20-year anniversary. I remember saying in that, 'I would love to follow Rhona’s footsteps. I would love to do what she did because I remember staying up watching it'.

“To have this moment now and know that I followed in Rhona’s footsteps and have this gold medal around my neck, is something very, very special.

“I can’t thank Rhona enough for all of her help and support through the years to help me get here.”