Paris 2024 Olympic Games Closing Ceremony Set to Feature Tom Cruise, Billie Eilish and Handoff to Los Angeles
After 19 days of competition, Sunday marks the end of the 2024 Paris Olympics. And just like Opening ceremony on July 27Today’s closing ceremony is expected to be a mix of sports and spectacle—but with a California twistas this event will also serve as a transition to Los Angeles Olympic in 2028.
The Paris Games wrapped up on Sunday, August 11 after 329 events in 32 sports, four of which were considered “non-traditional”: skateboarding, sport climbing, surfing and breaking, the last of which made its Olympic debut this year. More than 10,500 athletes from more than 200 countries, as well as the IOC’s Refugee Olympic Team, competed in the past weeks, the event website notes. That equates to about 350,000 hours. television broadcasting worldwide, watched by billions of people.
Plus, there’s the closing ceremony on Sunday, which starts at 3 p.m. ET. In the U.S., viewers can watch the end-of-game event on NBC and Peacock. While the exact details of the final ceremony are still being kept under wraps, here’s what we know so far:
Thomas Jolly2024 Olympics artistic director behind controversial opening ceremony drag queen painting so painful some astute commentators will host the event, called “Records,” at the Stade de France, an 80,698-seat venue north of Paris. Olympic websiteThe event will feature “more than a hundred performers, acrobats, dancers and circus artists” and “an original soundtrack, new interpretations, musical performances and the participation of world-famous singers will complete the picture”.
“Part of the show will take place in the air,” the organizers promise, “while the giant sets, costumes and spectacular lighting effects will take the audience on a journey through time, both past and future.”
According to Send to GuardianWhat we see today may have changed in the days leading up to the event. The ceremony’s director Thierry Reboul The outlet said the backlash to the supposed boundary-breaking at the opening ceremony “forced us to re-read the entire thing.” [closing ceremonies] nth time to make sure that there is no misunderstanding, that we are not being forced to say things we do not want to say.”
