Athletes make their way into Stade de France for the closing ceremony. (David Davies/PA Images via Getty Images)
Nearly as quickly as they arrived in Paris, the 2024 Summer Olympics are closing down. It seems like just yesterday that Celine Dion’s surprise performance on the Eiffel Tower put an exclamation point on a rainy Opening Ceremony that saw athletes from around the world enter the games in a boat parade down the Seine River.
The 2024 Paralympics are up next on the Olympic calendar, set for Aug. 28 to Sept. 8 in Paris. The next Winter Games are headed to Italy to be held in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo in February 2026, and the next Summer Olympics will be in Los Angeles in 2028.
Date: Sunday, August 11
Time: 3 p.m. ET
Location: Stade de France, Paris, FR
TV channel: NBC
Streaming: Peacock
Follow along with Yahoo Sports for the Closing Ceremony of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics.
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Sun, August 11, 2024 at 5:22 PM EDT
IOC president Thomas Bach has the mic. We’re moving closer to the handoff from Paris to Los Angeles.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 5:19 PM EDT
Estanguet also thanks the volunteers and other workers who have helped these Olympics run. He finishes with a few sentences in English, praising the athletes and speaking about how thrilling these games have been.
Estanguet added a note that the 2024 Olympics have had the most proposals of any Olympic games. Several athletes have either proposed to their partners or been proposed to. It is the City of Love, after all.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 5:18 PM EDT
Tony Estanguet tosses in a shoutout to France’s Léon Marchand, who won four swimming golds for France and earned the honor of extinguishing the torch, in his address
“We wanted to be inspired, we got Léon Marchand,” he said, earning a big cheer from the crowd. Pandering, perhaps, but effective.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 5:16 PM EDT
Tony Estanguet, the president of the Paris organizing committee, is now speaking, giving thanks to everyone who made the Games happen and celebrating the Paris effort.
“Tonight, I have never felt so proud to be French.”
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 5:07 PM EDT
Surfing on Team USA
Has there ever been crowd surfing at an Olympics closing ceremony? Phoenix lead singer Thomas Mars may have broken a barrier in Stade de France.
With all due respect to breaking, this has potential for another future Olympic event.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 5:04 PM EDT
A taste of the dance party with Belgian singer Angèle, French DJ Kavinsky and Phoenix joining forces:
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 5:01 PM EDT
After trading off with some other artists, Phoenix is sticking with the hits and finishes with “1901.” The crowd and the athletes are loving it.
Phoenix’s lead singer hops into the middle of Team USA and does some crowd surfing, and the set caps things off with some confetti.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 5:00 PM EDT
Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig has now joined Phoenix on stage. We’ve officially moved on to the party segment of the Closing Ceremony after a stunning artistic segment. French DJ Kavinsky also keeping the dance party going.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 4:47 PM EDT
French indie band Phoenix is now performing, playing their hit song “Lisztomania,” which was released in 2009. Athletes have stormed the stage for the impromptu rock concert.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 4:31 PM EDT
Now a grand piano and its player have been lifted from below the stage. The pianist Alain Roche is playing while vertically dangling from wires. What a spectacle.
Alain Roche plays a piano while dangling midair at the Olympics Closing Ceremony at Stade de France. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 4:29 PM EDT
Per NBC, this segment featuring the Golden voyager includes 110 performers and imagines a rebirth of the Olympic Games in a world where they didn’t exit.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 4:17 PM EDT
The spectacle is underway. A glimmering “Golden Voyager” is being lowered into Stade de France from the rafters.
The Golden Voyager has entered the building. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 4:11 PM EDT
Now the show’s about to start. The lights are down in Stade de France, and the on-field orchestra has been cued up.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 4:11 PM EDT
Olympic volunteers are now having their moment, honored in the Closing Ceremony. Per NBC, more than 45,000 people volunteered to make the Paris Games go.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 4:02 PM EDT
Hassan is able to hear the Netherlands’ anthem played in her honor, in front of the entire athlete delegation and the tens of thousands in the Stade de France crowd. Incredibly cool moment.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 4:00 PM EDT
The parade is over, and women’s marathon medalists are having their medal ceremony. Netherlands’ Sifan Hassan won gold earlier in the day. What a cool spot to be awarded an Olympic medal.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:57 PM EDT
Meanwhile, here’s Nikola Jokić, not at Stade de France, but back home in Sombor at the horse track a day after leading Serbia to basketball bronze in Paris. Because of course he is.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:55 PM EDT
They’re now playing Queen’s “We Are the Champions,” and athletes are passionately singing along. Apparently athlete karaoke is exactly what it sounds like.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:54 PM EDT
There are quite a few handheld fans out as well, especially among the Americans, who are wearing racing-style coats and long pants. It’s currently 81 degrees in Paris, where it’s almost 10 p.m. local time. The sun has just set, and the last of the light has left the sky.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:51 PM EDT
Something dubbed athlete karaoke is underway. Probably a good time for a commercial break.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:51 PM EDT
The mass of United States athletes is excitedly dancing, taking selfies, and chatting as the ceremony continues. There’s a French athlete crowd-surfing over a line of other members of Team France. Generally, the vibes are jovial.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:47 PM EDT
Former Olympic figure skaters Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir have taken over the mic from Mike Tirico and and Jimmy Fallon on the NBC broadcast. Their perspective from their experience as Olympic athletes is always insightful.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:45 PM EDT
U.S. athletes are taking the field.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:37 PM EDT
A look at Katie Ledecky and Nick Mead carrying the U.S. flag. The full U.S delegation of athletes is waiting for its turn to take the field.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:37 PM EDT
Delegations might look smaller than they did in the opening ceremony: Many athletes, especially ones that competed early in the games, can opt to head home early. Still, the Team USA crowd looks particularly big from inside the tunnel, where they wait to enter the stadium.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:33 PM EDT
This really is a celebration for the athletes, who are dancing and smiling as they take the field. Those with medals are proudly showing them off.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:25 PM EDT
Each nation sent two flag bearers in first. Now the full delegation of athletes is joining the flag bearers on the field for the party.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:24 PM EDT
NBC hosts Mike Tirico and Jimmy Fallon are making awkward small talk with Ledecky and Mead in their ear pieces as they walk with the flag.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:22 PM EDT
Katie Ledecky (swimming) and Nick Mead (rowing) just walked in to the Stade de France with the American flag.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:17 PM EDT
The parade of nations is now underway in a packed Stade de France. As is tradition, Greece leads the way.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:12 PM EDT
Tom Cruise’s closing ceremony mission
The Paris Olympics closing ceremony will reportedly finish with an elaborate stunt from Tom Cruise.
The plan is for the “Mission: Impossible” star – or perhaps a stunt double – to rappel from the top of Stade de France to the field to carry the Olympic flag. NBC’s broadcast will then cut to a previously recorded video of Cruise flying from Paris to Los Angeles, then skydiving from the plane down to the Hollywood sign, according to TMZ.
Tom Cruise is rumored to perform a skydiving stunt during the Paris Olympics closing ceremony, handing off to the 2028 L.A. Games, according to People. He will transport the Olympic flag from Paris, reportedly landing on the Hollywood sign. https://t.co/HOloQ9fTStpic.twitter.com/I22YNTHviV
Cruise reportedly approached the IOC about participating in the closing ceremony and proposed performing a series of stunts during the proceedings. The actor was previously involved in Olympic processions, carrying the torch through L.A. on its way to Athens, Greece in the lead-up to the 2004 Games.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:10 PM EDT
The flame will make its way from Paris to the Stade de France, just north of the city.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:08 PM EDT
French swimming hero Léon Marchand makes an early appearance at the ceremony, which is starting by the Olympic flame location at the Tuileries Gardens. Marchand won four gold medals in the pool and was the face of the Olympics for host France. He’s carrying the flame.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:03 PM EDT
Unlike the opening ceremony, which was a very unique format and took place on the Seine River and around the city of Paris, this closing ceremony will be somewhat more traditional. The main event will take place in Stade de France, but some performances will be filmed in other parts of Paris.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:00 PM EDT
Flag bearers Katie Ledecky and Nick Mead are ready to lead Team USA in the closing ceremony
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 2:38 PM EDT
Paris’ woman mayor will pass Olympic flag to Los Angeles’ woman mayor
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo will pass the Olympic flag to another woman mayor during the closing ceremony in Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass. It’s the first time that the Olympic flag will be transferred from one woman mayor to another.
During the Closing Ceremony, the first woman Mayor of Paris will pass the Olympic flag to the first woman Mayor of Los Angeles.
In that moment, I hope we’ll be showing girls across the world that they can run for gold, and they can also run for office.
Hidalgo is the first woman elected to be Paris mayor, winning her office in 2014. Bass was elected in 2022 as Los Angeles’ first woman mayor and is also the city’s second Black mayor, joining Tom Bradley.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 2:07 PM EDT
Gold medalists Katie Ledecky, Nick Mead named USA flag bearers for Closing Ceremony
Team USA announced Thursday that gold medal winners Katie Ledecky, a swimmer, and Nick Mead, a rower, will carry the flag at the upcoming Closing Ceremony.
Ledecky’s accomplishments at the 2024 Games have been phenomenal. She won four medals: two gold, one silver and one bronze. Both of her golds came from individual events: the 1500m, in which she set a Olympic record and finished so far ahead of her competitors that you could see them continuing to swim in the background as she did her post-race interview; and the 800m, in which she won her fourth consecutive gold medal.
Oh, there’s more. Her lifetime Olympic medal count is 14: nine golds, four silvers and one bronze. She is now the most decorated female Olympic swimmer of all time, has more Olympic gold medals than any other female swimmer in history, and tied Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina for the most golds for a female Olympian ever.
Ledecky was emotional when she was told by teammate Robert Finke that she had been chosen as the Team USA flag bearer.
