This Sunday marked the closing ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Video games in Paris, placing an finish to 17 thrilling days price of thrilling athletic contests, patriotic uniforms, and, in fact, A-list star sightings within the crowds. (See the entire highlights right here.) It was actually a profitable exhibiting for Workforce USA, which left the Paris Video games with 126 medals—40 golds, 44 silvers, and 42 bronzes—essentially the most of any competing nation.
This night’s concluding ceremony passed off on the Stade de France, an 80,000-seat stadium that, during the last two weeks, hosted the Video games’ observe and subject and rugby sevens competitions. Amongst these tapped to carry out? Billie Eilish, H.E.R., the Pink Sizzling Chili Peppers, and Snoop Dogg. (The subsequent Summer time Olympics are set for Los Angeles, in spite of everything.) However they weren’t the night’s solely leisure: In an official assertion launched beforehand, organizers promised that the closing ceremony—titled Data and artistic-directed by Thomas Jolly, who additionally dealt with the opening ceremony—would additionally characteristic “over 100 performers, acrobats, dancers, and circus artists.” Evidently, all of them delivered.
Under, extra of the most effective moments from the 2024 Olympic Video games closing ceremony.
