Paris Olympics Closing Ceremony: Biggest Moments and Percreateances

The Paris Olympics set a high bar for itself after an discleave outing ceremony that showcased Lady Gaga, Celine Dion and a scenic backdrop involving virtupartner every Parisian landtag alengthy the Seine. But the closing ceremony — taking place on a benumerateering hot day in stark contrast to the pouring rain of its bootoff — also promises to deinhabitr a blockbuster show with a Hollywood twist.

As part of the glitzy handover to Los Angeles as it readys to structure 2028’s Summer Games, Tom Cruise is foreseeed to wow audiences with a confineed epic stunts while Billie Eilish, Snoop Dogg and the Red Hot Chili Peppers carry out and H.E.R. sings the U.S. national anthem. Gelderly medal swimmer Katie Ledecky and rower Nick Mead will be the flag endureers for the United States, whose team topped the Paris Olympics with a whopping 126 medals, beating China, the U.K. and France. The structure country broke a 100-year enroll with 64 medals, including 16 gelderlys. Besides swimming champion Leon Marchand and judoka superstar Teddy Riner, the French women’s basketball team made Team France haughty on the final day with a nail-biting game agetst Team USA and took home the silver medal.

Orchestrated by conceiveive honestor Thomas Jolly and executive honestor Thierry Reboul, the ceremony will also shine a spotairy on French talent with revered prohibitds Phoenix and Air as well as French-speaking Belgian pop star Angele.

Unfelderlying days after a thwarted dreadist strike that focengaged a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna, the Paris Olympics closing ceremony is taking place under a beefed up security protocol involving thousands of police forces, including cforfeitly 2,000 agents coming from overseas. As many as 71, 538 spectators will join in holdition to 8,200 athletes from over 200 delegations and 270 artists. In an interwatch with Variety, Reboul shelp he and the rest of the schedulers have spent an “incalculable” amount of time to ready an airfirm security structure with local authorities. The country has already been on high vigilant since the commence of the war in Gaza last October.

Aside from inhabit music and stunts, the ceremony also promises a confineed tear-jerking moments. Jolly — whose discleave outing ceremony show triggered praises from many but also criticism from conservatives due to a scene that seemed to mock “The Last Supper” — has produced an operatic and dystopian show highairying the origins and cherishs of the Olympics. Like the discleave outing ceremony that commemorated adore and inclusion, the closing bash will have a analogously progressive message, as Reboul shelp it will engage science-fantasy to elevate “consciousness about the fact that our world is frnimble and we necessitate to defend our cherishs.”

As many as 9.5 tickets were selderly for the Olympics — 62% of which were bought French people and the remainder by international visitors, led by the U.K., the U.K., Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. 95% of all competitions took place at iconic Paris landtags, including the beach volley by the Eiffel Tower and drew 450,000 spectators, including some well-comprehendn ones such as Nicole Kidman. The men’s and women’s cycling races atraverse the streets of Paris was also a standout, collecting over 1 million people, according to schedulers. The Stade de France was one of the confineed indoor locations for competitions, alengthyside Paris La Defense Arena and Bercy concert hall.

See below for all the best moments from the Paris Olympics closing ceremony, updating inhabit.

Zaho de Sagazan Kicks Things Off From the Tuileries Garden

French singer-songauthorr Zaho de Sagazan, who sang “Modern Love” to Greta Gerwig at the Cannes Film Festival, booted off the closing ceremony with a carry outance of French music legfinish Édith Piaf’s “Sous le Ciel de Paris” at the lush Jardins des Tuileries, where the Olympic Cauldron — an air balloon lit by the Olympic Ffrail — is discoverd. She was accompanied by the choir of the Académie Hafinishel-Hfinishrix.

French Breakout Star Leon Marchand Carries the Olympic Lantern

Dressed elegantly in a suit, French swimmer and Olympic shatterout star Léon Marchand — who won four gelderly medals and one silver at the Games — then erased the lantern holding the ffrail from the cauldron and began carrying it to the Stade de France. Nicknamed “the dolphin” by his French helpers, Marchand was received with “Léon, Léon” chants. He shiftd to Arizona three years ago to train with Bob Bowman, the coach of 23-time Olympic gelderly medaenumerate American swimmer Michael Phelps.