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The 2024 Paris Olympics got here to an finish on Sunday as athletes from the scores of countries that participated within the Summer Games took half within the closing ceremony.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo handed the Olympic flag to International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach who, in flip, handed it to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.
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U.s. gymnast Simone Biles holds the Olympic flag in the course of the Summer Games closing ceremony on the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France, on Aug. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Bass was accompanied by gymnast Simone Biles, who was in a strolling boot after injuring her calf earlier within the Olympics, as the 2 had been onstage to listen to H.E.R. carry out “The Star-Spangled Banner” in entrance of the gang at Stade de France.
Then actor Tom Cruise rappelled down from the rafters of the stadium onto the grounds and obtained an enormous kiss from a lady there. He then obtained the Olympic flag and began his cinematic trek from Paris to Los Angeles on a motorbike.
The TV characteristic confirmed Cruise racing by means of the streets of Paris onto the again of a cargo airplane. He then by some means made it to the Hollywood signal, which was decked out within the Olympic rings. Pro mountain biker Kate Courtney went down the steps of Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and gave the flag to former U.S. sprinter Michael Johnson.
Tom Cruise carries the Olympic flag in the course of the Summer Games closing ceremony on the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France, on Aug. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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Actor Tom Cruise poses for a photograph on the roof of the Stade de France in the course of the closing ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, Aug. 11, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France. (Fabrizio Bensch/Pool Photo through AP)
Johnson ran the flag by means of Beverley Hills to Olympic skateboarding medalist Jagger Eaton, who kicked and pushed his solution to Venice Beach the place the Red Hot Chili Peppers had been ready.
The band kicked off an LA 28 live performance that additionally featured Billie Eilish, Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre.
The Los Angeles Olympics will start July 14, 2028. It would be the first Summer Olympics held within the United States since Atlanta in 1996. Los Angeles beforehand hosted the Games in 1984.
Snoop Dogg is proven in the course of the males’s skateboarding park finals on the Summer Olympics in Paris on Aug. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
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The United States seems to be to complete 2028 with probably the most gold medals after tying with China in 2024.
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