The ceremony obtained underway with a traditional musical efficiency and the France swimmer Leon Marchand, bringing the Olympic flame in a lantern to the Stade de France the place the closing ceremony was being held
The Paris Olympics 2024 ended on a glittering word after a stunning, star-studded closing ceremony on Sunday, that includes a plethora of celebrity athletes and artists celebrating the game at its highest degree. The ceremony obtained underway with a traditional musical efficiency and the France swimmer Leon Marchand, bringing the Olympic flame in a lantern to the Stade de France the place the closing ceremony was being held.
The Parade of Nations began contained in the stadium to the delight and cheers of hundreds of excited followers gathered inside. The flag-bearers of the IOC Refugee and Olympic Team and France led the way in which.
Indian shooter Manu Bhaker, the two-time bronze medallist in the course of the Paris sporting extravaganza and legendary hockey goalkeeper PR Sreejesh, who performed an important position in India’s second successive bronze medal on the Olympics with his otherworldly, clutch goalkeeping abilities, made their approach to the stadium with Indian flag of their arms as flag-bearers. The Olympics additionally marked Sreejesh’s remaining worldwide match for India.
Inside the stadium, the ultimate medal ceremony of the Olympics 2024 was held for the ladies’s marathon competitors, which was a terrific and symbolic approach to conclude the first-ever Olympics with full gender parity.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach and World Athletics President Sebastian Coe felicitated the medal winners.
The closing ceremony continued entertaining and mesmerising followers with a treat-on-eyes gentle present and a efficiency by The Golden Voyager, a personality impressed by references from French historical past, together with the Spirit of the Bastille, as per Olympics.com. As a practice, the Greek flag was raised in the course of the efficiency, reminding those who the roots of the multi-sport occasion lay in Greece, which hosted the first-ever Olympics in 1896 at Athens.
Following the footsteps of Pierre de Coubertin, additionally identified as the ‘Father of Modern Olympics’, the Golden Voyager unearthed vestiges of previous Olympics in an effort to infuse a brand new life into them. During the present, a number of symbols marking the founding of the video games and their values of unity and peace have been found.
In an impressively choreographed efficiency, the Golden Voyager found the Olympic rings and so they have been hoisted into the air proper in the course of the stadium. These Olympic rings symbolize 5 continents that function within the sporting occasion. During the efficiency, French pianist and opera singer Benjamin Bernheim sang the ‘Hymn to Apollo’ whereas Alain Roche performed on a piano whereas being suspended vertically within the air.
After this good set of performances, the French indie-rock band Pheonix, consisting of Thomas Mars, Deck d’Arcy, Christian Mazzalai and Laurent Brancowitz, delivered banger after banger for the followers and athletes in attendance, filling up the air with sounds of drums and electrical guitars, which musically symbolize the power athletes convey to the Olympics by placing a few of their career-best performances, giving the game each ounce of their being on the grandest stage of all of them!
French digital artist Kavinsky additionally carried out his ‘Nightcall’ alongside with rock band.
Following these performances, the Paris 2024 Organising Committee president Tony Estanguet addressed the gang. On the stage, he was joined by six athletes representing the 5 continents and the Refugee Olympic Team. He was additionally accompanied by the IOC president Bach. Tony congratulated and thanked all of the athletes for his or her performances and stated all of them might be reunited in the course of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
The athletes accompanying Tony included:
-Boxer Cindy Ngamba (Cameroon), one bronze medal, representing the Refugee Olympic Team
-Table tennis participant Sun Yingsha (China), three gold medals, two silver medals, representing Asia
-Marathon runner Eliud Kipchoge (Kenya), two gold medals, one silver medal, one bronze medal, representing Africa
-Wrestler Mijain Lopez (Cuba), 5 gold medals, representing the Americas
-Judoka Teddy Riner (France), 5 gold medals, two bronze medals, representing Europe
-Swimmer Emma McKeon (Australia), six gold medals, three silver medals, 5 bronze medals, representing Oceania.
Bach additionally addressed the gang, hailing the video games as a “start of new era”.
“Your performances were amazing. You competed fiercely against each other. Every contest on the edge of perfection. Every performance sparking excitement around the world. You showed us what greatness we humans are capable of. The Olympic Games Paris 2024 were a celebration of the athletes and of sport at its best. The first Olympic Games delivered completely under our Olympic Agenda reforms: younger, more urban, more inclusive, more sustainable. The first Olympic Games with full gender parity. These were sensational Olympic Games from start to finish – or dare I say: Seine-sational Games,” added Bach.
After these speeches began off the Olympic Flag Handover Ceremony, to start out the transition from the Paris Olympics 2024 to Los Angeles 2028, motion of the Olympic motion from France to the USA. The Olympic flag was handed to from the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, to IOC President Thomas Bach, then to Mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass. Simon Biles, one of many best Olympians ever from the USA and worldwide, joined the stage to obtain the flag and waved it.
The Grammy Award successful R&B singer H.E.R began off the transition to the LA2028 Olympics with her melodic singing of her rendition of the the American National Anthem, the Star-Spangled Banner.
Legendary American actor Tom Cruise made a surprising entry to the ceremony, rappelling from the roof of the stadium. Bass and Biles gave the flag to Cruise who took off in a motorbike.
Cruise helped take the flag from Paris to Los Angeles, through through the streets of Paris and the hills of Hollywood. The well-known Hollywood signal was additionally displayed, with Red Hot Chilli Peppers performing their track “Can’t Stop” on the Venice Beach in California. As the flag was transported from Paris to Hollywood in LA, some cameos got here from buddies and Olympians Kate Courtney (mountain bike, 2020), Michael Johnson (monitor and discipline athletics, four-time Olympic champion, 1992-2000), and Jagger Eaton (skateboarding, two-time Olympic medallist, 2020-2024).
Also, the multi-time Grammy Award winner and 22-year-old pop sensation Billie Eilish carried out her hit track “Birds of a Feather” with her brother Finneas.
Then, the legendary American hip-hop duo of rapper Snoop Dogg and rapper-music producer Dr Dre, greatest identified for some traditional West Coast Hip Hop music from the Nineties, carried out a few of their most iconic hits, together with their smash hit ‘The Next Episode’ and “Drop It Like It’s Hot”.
To mark the tip of the ceremony, Leon Marchand arrived on the Stade De France with the Olympic flame in hand and Bach declared the Games as formally closed. The flame was blown out by Marchand after it.
“Under tradition, I call upon the youth of the world to assemble four years from now in Los Angeles, United States of America, to celebrate with all of us the Games of the XXXIV Olympiad,” President Bach added.
The ceremony ended with Yseult, a French artist,The singing the interpretation of legendary Frank Sinatra’s traditional, ‘My Way’, which was initially based mostly on a French track, “Comme d’habitude.” Fireworks on the Stade De France concluded the ceremony on a excessive!
USA ended the Paris Olympics 2024 on the prime of the medal tally with a complete of 126 medals, together with 40 gold medals, 44 silver and 42 bronze medals on Sunday.
In second place is China, who ended their marketing campaign with 40 gold, 27 silver, and 24 bronze medals, making it a complete of 91 medals. The third place was bagged by Japan, who took house 20 golds, 12 silver and 13 bronze medals, which is a complete of 45 medals. The Indian contingent completed on the 71st spot, with a silver medal and 5 bronze medals to their title, bringing house a complete of six medals.
A contingent of 117 Indian athletes pursued medals and sporting glory on the marquee occasion.
India secured a complete of six medals on the marquee occasion, together with one silver and 5 bronze, based on Olympics.com.
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