Olympics Closing Ceremony Time 2016: Key USA Viewing Info for Rio's Epic Event

The party is almost over as the 2016 Rio Olympic Games draw to a close. Sunday night's closing ceremony will officially bring the spectacle to its conclusion.

As the network did with the opening ceremony, NBC will run the closing ceremony on tape delay. According to Sports Media Watch, the broadcast will begin at 8 p.m. ET. Fans planning to live-stream the event can do so at NBCSports.com or the NBC Sports app.

For the fifth time in six years, the United States will finish atop the medal table. The U.S. owns an unassailable overall lead on China:

Simone Biles exits Rio as one of the most dominant female gymnasts ever. The 19-year-old earned four gold medals and one bronze. Her performance en route to the individual all-around gold set the standard for future gymnasts to follow:

This summer also saw the last of the most decorated athlete in Olympic history. Competing in his fifth Olympics, Michael Phelps added six more medals—five golds and one silver—to bring his overall haul to 28.

In four years' time, Katie Ledecky will be carrying the torch for American swimming. Granted, it's tough to see how Ledecky can follow up her dominant showing in Rio. She won gold in the 200-, 400- and 800-meter freestyle races, becoming the first woman since Debbie Meyer in 1968 to win the top prize in all three events in a single Games.

Ledecky's competitors in the 800-meter freestyle needed binoculars to watch her touch the wall at the race's conclusion:

Hometown fans in Brazil had plenty to cheer for, especially as Thiago Braz da Silva looked to capture gold in the men's pole vault. While the Olympic Stadium wasn't filled to capacity as a result of rainy conditions in Rio, the crowd was electric as Braz set an Olympic record by reaching 6.03 meters:

Not everybody was so enthused by the partisan fans. Silver medalist Renaud Lavillenie made an unfortunate comparison he has since apologized for, likening the pole vault final to one of the most notoriously noxious Olympic atmospheres, per Reuters' Nick Mulvenney: "In 1936 the crowd was against Jesse Owens. We've not seen this since. We have to deal with it."

In the years to come, one of the lasting images from the 2016 Olympics will be an emotional Neymar running away in celebration after scoring the winning penalty in the men's soccer gold-medal game against Germany.

Olympic gold had long eluded Brazil and was the one honor the country had failed to capture. Beating Germany, in particular, provided a level of catharsis for supporters after the Germans were responsible for one of the worst defeats in Brazilian sports history—the 7-1 World Cup semifinal loss in 2014.

"I do not like to put one title above the other—every competition I contest and win is important," Neymar said, per ESPN FC. "Of course, it had great importance to Brazil and thank God we did it—after a lot of struggling, work and concentration."

The 2016 Olympics didn't go off without a hitch.

The Australian delegation had a particularly rough go of it early on, between some athletes getting robbed and others dwelling in substandard living quarters.

Tracking the color of the water in the diving pool also became a daily occurrence.

Yet, after a significant amount of reporting about the security and conditions in Rio ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics, the competition hasn't experienced issues beyond what many have come to expect with the Games.

Discussions have probably already begun about where this year's Olympics rank with past editions. The argument is purely subjective, but the past three weeks have undoubtedly produced moments that will be remembered for generations.

The closing ceremony will be a great way to celebrate those moments as fans prepare for the next four years ahead until the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.