VIDEO. Closing ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games: Tom Cruise, Snoop Dog, Léon Marchand, Tony Estanguet… what not to miss

| August 12, 2024 | Sport | No Comments

After 16 days of competition, the French capital handed over the baton to Los Angeles, the host city of the 2028 Games, on Sunday, August 11.

A passing of the baton in Los Angeles

After the Olympic flag was passed between the mayors of the two cities, Anne Hidalgo and Karen Bass, actor Tom Cruise, the man of impossible missions, symbolically linked Paris-2024 and Los Angeles. Angeles-2028.

Abseiling down from the roof of the Stade de France, he took the five-ringed flag before leaving on a motorbike and then by plane in a recorded sequence to parachute over California, where a mini-concert on a beach was broadcast, featuring the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Billie Eilish and rappers Dr Dre and… Snoop Dog, mascot of the Paris Games for two weeks back on the West Coast.

Léon Marchand turns off the cauldron

Before the show at the Stade de France, the Olympic cauldron, one of the most striking emblems of the Games, was extinguished in the Tuileries Gardens, in the heart of the capital, where swimmer Léon Marchand, one of the great heroes of the fortnight with his four gold medals, grabbed the lantern containing the Olympic flame to carry it to the stadium.

Tony's speech Estanguet

For two weeks without any organizational hitch, “Paris became a party again, and France found itself”, said the head of the Organizing Committee, Tony Estanguet. These Games have transformed the French, "people of indomitable grumblers" into "unbridled supporters", he continued.

Thomas Bach hailed the Olympics as "sensational" with an unrivaled atmosphere. “These were sensational Olympics from start to finish – or dare I say, they were Seine-sational Olympics from start to finish“, declared the head of the Olympic movement, who will leave his post in June 2025 after twelve years in office.

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