After more than two weeks of competitive games, plenty of medals as well as tears of joy and sadness, Latin America's first Olympics wrapped up in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday.
The most memorable moments from the Aug. 5-21 Summer Games range from the fast paced, such as Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt glancing at Canadian rival Andre De Grasse during a race to the joyous post-competition celebrations, showing Brazilian rugby player Isadora Cerullo kissing her girlfriend after a wedding proposal at a medal ceremony.
"When Usain Bolt prepared for his 100m semi-final I decided to play with slow shutter speed for that race.
I set my camera (shutter speed) to a 50th of a second and was waiting for the moment when he passed my position.
In this very right moment he looked to his left with the proud smile and my first thought was: 'hopefully I got this sharp.'
Well, I've been a lucky bunny in this case but I still would not have imagined at this moment that this picture would go viral and get worldwide recognition," said Reuters photographer Kai Pfaffenbach.
. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Reuters/Alessandro Bianchi
"The Rio Olympics will be remembered for many magical moments — equally on the sporting field and off it.
Brazilian women's rugby player Isadora Cerullo melted hearts when she accepted a marriage proposal from her girlfriend Marjorie Enya at the medals ceremony for the first Olympic rugby sevens competition.
Marjorie Enya, a manager at the Deodoro stadium in Rio where the competition was played, took the microphone to pop the question to her girlfriend of two years, on the pitch. A tearful Cerullo accepted and, with no ring, Enya tied a ribbon to her finger.
The crowd erupted into cheers," recalled Reuters photographer Alessandro Bianchi.
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. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Reuters/Ricardo Moraes
"My assignment was to take pictures of the fireworks over the Maracana stadium from a top view.
I didn't think twice and managed to cover it from Mangueira slum which has the best view of the stadium.
Walking around the favela, I found the view in which I could put together simple houses of the community and luxurious opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
The big contrast of this picture shows inequality but it also shows a bit of what I believe is our beauty - how mixed and plural our country is and how close the different classes live in Rio," said Reuters photographer Ricardo Moraes, who is based in Brazil.
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. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Reuters/Brian Snyder
Sailors compete under the Christ the Redeemer statue.
. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Reuters/Michael Dalder
Qiu Bo of China competes in men's 10m platform final.
. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Reuters/Dominic Ebenbichler
Michael Phelps of USA congratulates Joseph Schooling of Singapore after Schooling won the gold in men's 100m butterfly final.
. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Reuters/Laszlo Balogh
Kenya Yasuda of Japan is injure in men's water polo preliminary round.
. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson
(Left to right) Jhoanis Portilla of Cuba, Orlando Ortega of Spain and Deuce Carter of Jamaica compete in the rain.
. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Reuters/Dylan Martinez
Mo Farah of Britain celebrates winning the men's 5000m final.
. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Reuters/Athit Perawongmetha
First placed Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya celebrates with supporters.
. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach
Rafaela Silva of Brazil celebrates gold medal in woman's 57 kg judo.
. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Reuters/Paul Hanna
Mariana Pajon of Colombia leads the race during women's BMX final.
. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Reuters/Marko Djurica
Goalkeeper Teresa Almeida of Angola saves.
. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Reuters/Leonhard Foeger
Neymar of Brazil celebrates with goalkeeper Weverton of Brazil after they won the penalty shootout and the gold medal.
. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Reuters/Toby Melville
The tennis court is cleaned by personnel as matches were delayed due to rain.
. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Reuters/Dylan Martinez
Lee Eun-Ju of South Korea (right) takes a selfie picture with Hong Un Jong of North Korea.
. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Reuters/Alkis Konstantinidis
Yu Mengyu of Singapore eyes the ball during play against Kim Song I of North Korea.
. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Reuters/Issei Kato
Miles Gerek Meinhardt of USA competes with Artur Akhmatkhuzin of Russia.
. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Reuters/Toru Hanai
Roman Vlasov of Russia celebrates winning the gold medal after the victory over Mark Overgard Madsen of Denmark in men's Greco-Roman 75kg wrestling.
. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Reuters/Toru Hanai
The coach of Mandakhnaran Ganzorig of Mongolia takes off his clothes as he protests after the match against Ikhtiyor Navruzov of Uzbekistan in men's freestyle 65 kg wrestling.
. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Reuters/Damir Sagolj
Simone Biles of USA during the women's team final in artistic gymnastics.
. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Reuters/Toru Hanai
Sara Dosho of Japan celebrates with her coach after winning the gold medal in women's freestyle 69kg wrestling.