After record-breaking performances and producing the youngest gold medalist in the Olympic games, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games wrapped up with a closing ceremony on Sunday. However, another unofficial but interesting closing ceremony of the games was held some 400 kilometres high in the sky from Tokyo — at the International Space Station. Astronauts Thomas Pesquet and Akihiko Hoshide unfurled the Olympic flag aboard the space station in microgravity. Pesquet shared a video of the closing ceremony held in space on his Twitter account. In the video, Pesquest and Hoshide can be seen unfurling the Olympic flag. After it, when they turn the flag around, Paris 2024 can be seen written on it — indicating the upcoming 2024 Olympic games in Paris.

Ahead of this unofficial ceremony, the astronauts also participated in their own made-up space Olympics. The hilarious and cheerful videos from the event show astronauts competing against each other in games they call lack-of-floor routine — some sort of space gymnastics, No-handball — hitting goal by a ping-pong ball using just their breath, synchronised space swimming — which appears similar to dancing in Bollywood fashion, and Weightless sharpshooting — shooting rubber bands.

The participant teams were Team dragon — astronauts that came to ISS on SpaceX Crew Dragon — and Team Soyuz — astronauts who came on Soyuz. Team Dragon had NASA astronauts Megan McArthur and Shane Kimbrough, ESA astronaut Pesquet and JAXA astronaut Hoshide. On the other hand, Team Soyuz included cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Oleg Novitskiy, and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei.

During the first activity, astronauts can be seen performing body movements while avoiding touching a floor. Cosmonaut Dubrov won this event.

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The hilarious and cheerful videos from the event show astronauts competing against each other in games they call lack-of-floor routine.