Tom Cruise supplied some Hollywood glamour because the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games concluded with a star-studded closing ceremony that signalled the handing over of internet hosting duties to Los Angeles for 2028.
With LA leaning into one in all its key promoting factors, the razzle dazzle of Hollywood, Cruise’s cameo look noticed him abseil in from the roof of the Stade de France to the Mission Not possible theme.
There have been additionally performances from native Californians Billie Eilish, Crimson Sizzling Chili Peppers, Snoop Dogg and Dr Dre by way of video hyperlink to Lengthy Seashore in Los Angeles, whereas five-time Grammy-winning artist H.E.R sung the US nationwide anthem from contained in the stadium.
French swimmer Leon Marchant, the Video games’ most adorned athlete after profitable 4 golds and one bronze within the pool, was additionally a part of the ceremony, amassing the Olympic flame from the Tuileries Gardens in Paris and bringing it into the sector to be formally extinguished.
Yee and Web page chosen to be GB flagbearers
Staff GB’s athletes, together with the likes of Tom Daley, Helen Glover and Caden Cunningham, have been in attendance, kitted out in Hawaiian-style shirts displaying the emblems of each nation in Nice Britain and Northern Eire.
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Sky Sports activities Olympics correspondents Geraint Hughes and Miriam Walker-Khan replicate on Staff GB’s success, the most important tales and a sit up for LA 2028.
Chosen among the many GB athletes to be flagbearers have been males’s triathlon winner Alex Yee and trampoline gold medallist Bryony Web page, two of our 14 gold medallists from the Video games. Staff GB gained 65 medals in complete, another than the 64 they managed in Tokyo three years in the past.
Yee stated of the honour: “There’s been so many incredible performances over the last two weeks from Team GB, so to be selected as somebody who’s represented Team GB well and made the country proud is really special.”
Web page added: “When I got the call to tell me, I couldn’t believe it. It truly is such an honour. For a sport like trampolining, which is quite niche, it’s quite amazing.
“It is a very emotional and proud second… it simply caps an unbelievable expertise.”
Staff GB’s medal haul within the final 4 Olympic Video games
Hassan wears hijab when accepting marathon gold
There was one closing medal to be awarded within the early a part of the closing ceremony, with the Netherlands’ Sifan Hassan accepting her ladies’s marathon gold whereas carrying a hijab.
France is a rustic that doesn’t enable its personal athletes to put on the headband.
When Thomas Bach, president of the Worldwide Olympic Committee, gave his deal with through the closing ceremony, he selected to give attention to how the Olympics can create a tradition of peace.
“Despite all the tensions in our world, you came here from all 206 national Olympic committees and the IOC Refugee Olympic Team, to make the City of Light shine brighter than ever before,” he stated.
“Your performances were amazing. You competed fiercely against each other. Every contest on the edge of perfection. Every performance sparking excitement around the world. You showed us what greatness we humans are capable of.
“We all know that the Olympic Video games can not create peace. However the Olympic Video games can create a tradition of peace that evokes the world. That is why I name on everybody who shares this Olympic spirit: allow us to reside this tradition of peace each single day.”
‘Golden voyager’ helps raise Olympic rings
As for other highlights of the closing ceremony, organisers took an artistic approach in telling the history of the Olympics during a portion of the show where a ‘golden voyager’ took to the stage in an elaborate gold costume.
After the golden voyager was lowered to the stage from the roof, a cloaked individual presented them with a Greek flag, to represent the Games’ ancient origin.
The voyager was later joined on stage by some acrobats who have been dressed as alien-like creatures who helped him uncover the Olympic rings which have been then hoisted into air from the stadium ground.
Police arrest man climbing Eiffel Tower previous to closing ceremony
Hours previous to the Olympics closing ceremony, French police evacuated the world across the Eiffel Tower after a person was seen climbing the Paris landmark.
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The world across the Eiffel Tower has been evacuated after a person climbed the Paris landmark hours earlier than the Olympics closing ceremony.
Police escorted guests away from the world round 3pm. Some guests who have been briefly locked on the second ground have been allowed to exit round half-hour later.
“An individual started climbing the Eiffel Tower at 2.45pm, police intervened and the person was detained,” a Paris police official informed The Related Press.
The Eiffel Tower was a centre-piece of the opening ceremony, with Celine Dion serenading town from one in all its viewing areas, however didn’t kind a part of the closing ceremony.
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