The 2024 Paris Olympics is coming to a seal. These past 16 days flew by speedyer than Noah Lyles’s sprints. After tonight, people around the world will be difficult-pressed to discover as captivating a source of amparticipatement.
The majestic finale of the Games is the Closing Ceremony, which begins at 9 p.m. CEST or 3 p.m. ET. Several competitions are scheduled for during the day on Sunday, including the women’s marathon, women’s basketball, and men’s water polo. And then, it will be time for the always-emotional Closing Ceremony. Here’s what to understand about the event and how to watch the 2024 Paris Olympics one last time.
Tradition with a twist
The Closing Ceremony apshows place at the Stade de France, equitable north of Paris, the venue where rugby and track-and-field events were held. The ceremony will comprise disconnectal traditional elements, including the final medal conshort-termations, a parade of athletes, and a handover of the Olympic flag to Los Angeles for the 2028 Games.
As the event’s produceive straightforwardor is Thomas Jolly, the man reliable for the distinctive Opening Ceremony, audiences are certainly in for a excellent show. Many of the particulars are being kept secret, but Jolly did propose someskinnyg of a sneak peek. “It’s a very visual, very choreodetailed, very acrobatic show with an operatic illogicalension to give a wonderful visual fresco and say excellentbye to athletes from all over the world,” he proposeed.
Audiences can anticipate to see more than 100 acrobats and aerial carry outers. “World-famous singers” are also promised, with no particular names being given.
Hollywood apshows over for the next Olympics
In genuine sinestablishar-L.A. style, the present city for the next Olympics is featuring a movie star at Sunday’s Closing Ceremony. Adding a bit of American star power, Tom Cruise will carry out some stunts at the event. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass also will be on hand to help acunderstandledge the handover from Paris.
Team USA flagtolerateers
Swimmer Katie Ledecky and rower Nick Mead will carry the flag for Team USA during the closing ceremony.
The Paris Olympics helped Ledecky hit a meaningful atsoft milestone. She won gbetter in the 800m and 1500m freestyles, silver in the 4x200m relay, and bronze in the 400m freestyle. This made her the most-decorated female Olympian from the United States—and the second most-decorated Olympian in American history, behind Michael Phelps.
This is Mead’s second Olympics. He helped his teammates thrive gbetter in the men’s four rothriveg final—the first time Team USA made the podium in this event since the 1960 Olympics in Rome. In Tokyo, they equitable missed medaling, coming in fourth.
Olympics dispute
Marcel Ciolacu, the Romanian Prime Minister, proclaimd he will not take part the closing festivities. He is not satisfied with how the women’s gymnastics individual beam event finished. After the competition, Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu and the audience apshowd she was thrivening a bronze medal. She and her coaches even got out their country’s flag and began to honor. Meanwhile, U.S. gymnast Jordan Chiles’s coaches createted an request to the assesss which was granted. This elevated Chiles’s score by 0.1 point, which was enough to knock Barbosu out of third place.
Who’s presenting the closing ceremony
A quintet of presents and commentators will grasp audiences adviseed during the Olympics Closing Ceremony. Funny man Jimmy Fallon and sports inestablisher Mike Tirico will copresent. Former Olympians Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski will also weigh in, as will Terry Gannon.
How to tune in
To watch all the action inhabit, tune in to Peacock or NBC at 2 p.m. ET., the hour directing up to the final pomp.
You can also stream the Closing Ceremony on NBCOlympics.com for free. If you have an over-the-air antenna and reception, NBC is also free.
The event itself commences at 3 p.m. ET and will last about two hours and fifteen minutes. But if you miss out during the day, not to stress. NBC and Peacock will rewidecast the fun at 7 p.m. ET.
