Paris Olympics closing ceremony - what you need to know

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The Paris Olympics will adjacent connected Sunday aft 329 gold-medal events

After much than 2 weeks of action-packed sport, Paris is preparing for nan 2024 Olympics closing ceremony.

It will return spot connected Sunday, 11 August and is being held astatine nan Stade de France, which has hosted athletics and rugby sevens during nan Games.

It is scheduled to commencement astatine 20:00 BST and decorativeness astatine 22:30.

How tin I watch nan closing ceremony?

For those successful nan UK, it will beryllium unrecorded connected BBC One, BBC iPlayer and nan BBC Sport website and app.

Television sum originates astatine 19:00 BST and location will beryllium an accompanying unrecorded text.

Is Tom Cruise progressive successful nan closing ceremony?

Organisers person remained tight-lipped astir who is appearing, but movie prima Tom Cruise is heavy rumoured to beryllium taking portion by abseiling down nan stadium.

There will beryllium a conception during which Paris hands complete to nan adjacent hosts of nan summertime Olympics - Los Angeles successful 2028 - and that could beryllium wherever nan Hollywood prima features.

The closing ceremonial will characteristic performers, dancers and circus artists taking portion alongside celebrated headlining acts, some French and American.

Snoop Dogg, who has been salient passim nan Games, is group to execute - arsenic are French artists Air and Pheonix.

Artistic head Thomas Jolly said nan show was called 'Records', and it promises to return nan assemblage connected a science-fiction dream-like immersive travel done time.

That will statesman from nan origins of nan Olympic Games and will spell to a dystopian early erstwhile nan Olympics person vanished and must beryllium reinvented.

Athletes' parade and handover of nan Olympic flag

As good arsenic nan unsocial creator section, nan closing ceremonial will besides see much accepted elements, including:

  • The parade of athletes.

  • The thanking of nan 45,000 volunteers.

  • The badge ceremonial for nan women's marathon.

  • The extinguishing of nan Olympic flame, which will beryllium brought from Tuileries, wherever nan cauldron has been connected show and visited by tens of thousands of fans.

  • The proclamation of nan extremity of nan Olympic Games, made by nan President of nan International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach

  • The handover of nan Olympic emblem from Anne Hidalgo to Karen Bass - nan respective mayors of Paris and Los Angeles.

What is nan upwind forecast?

Although nan closing ceremonial is taking spot wrong a stadium, dissimilar nan rain-soaked opening ceremony on nan River Seine, it is still unfastened to nan elements.

No rainfall is forecast for Sunday. Instead it will beryllium highly hot, pinch temperatures peaking astatine 33C successful nan French capital.

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