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That’s it from NDTV Sports activities’ protection of the Paris Olympics 2024. However whereas the occasions spherical up, the motion off the sphere does not. Doubtlessly, a much bigger day than any of the final fortnight comes tomorrow, as we discover out the decision on Vinesh Phogat’s enchantment for a silver medal.

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Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: Paris 2024 is finished!

The closing ceremony attracts to a detailed in a superbly lit Stade de France. Los Angeles will present hype, however can India enhance their efficiency from the Metropolis of Love?

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: Trailblazers

From Leon Marchand being a worthy dwelling hero, to Simone Biles displaying nobody does it fairly pretty much as good as her. 

From Katie Ledecky persevering with to shatter information to Noah Lyles being the true world champion.

From Imane Khelif to Lin Yu-ting, discrimination was responded again with gold. 

And from Manu Bhaker to PR Sreejesh and Vinesh Phogat, India discovered its set of heroes to look as much as once more.

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: India end 71st

India end with no gold, and with one much less medal than Tokyo 2020, however there have been many slender misses. Simply as many 4th-place finishes as medals, and plenty of extra indicators of hope in the course of the course of the final two weeks.

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: India’s Paris 2024

Congratulations to the six Indian medal-winners at Paris: Manu Bhaker, Sarabjot Singh, Swapnil Kusale, Neeraj Chopra, Aman Sehrawat and the lads’s hockey group.

Dare I say, Vinesh Phogat in a couple of hours time.

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: USA the cream of the crop once more

And very similar to it has been for the final three Olympic Video games, it is america of America main the medal desk. China took all of them the way in which, led the desk for therefore lengthy, however USA pip them to high spot in the long run.

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: Au revoir Paris 2024!

The Olympic flame is extinguished by Thomas Bach, Leon Marchand and the representatives of the continents. Paris Olympics 2024 attracts to a detailed.

Over to you, Los Angeles!

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: “Leon, Leon!”

Marchand receiving a grand welcome from the Stade de France. The athlete with essentially the most particular person medals in Paris 2024, in entrance of his dwelling crowd. 

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: Snoop Dogg waves the Olympic flag

Snoop Dogg waves the Olympic flag excessive and we in the reduction of proper again to the Stade de France. And guess who’s again? It is France’s favorite son, Leon Marchand, bringing within the Olympic flame. 

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: Snoop Dogg Snoop Dogg

From Billie Eilish to Snoop Dogg now! The closing ceremony has left the starcast proper to the top. This ceremony is getting extra American by the minute. Dr. Dre joins him, and the long-lasting ‘The Subsequent Episode’ is now being sung.

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: Billie Eilish now!

And there we go, Billie Eilish it’s! The 22-year-old singer is right here to dazzle, at her melodious greatest.

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: Billie Eilish, Snoop Dogg subsequent?

If the pre-ceremony roster is to be adopted, pop star Billie Eilish and rapper Snoop Dogg ought to be right here quickly.

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: And this is the Pink Sizzling Chilli Peppers

As we anticipated earlier than the ceremony, American rock band Pink Sizzling Chilli Peppers are performing. A grand stage is being arrange for LA 2028!

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: Olympics on the land of Hollywood!

A very exceptional design. The Olympic rings have been intertwined with the Hollywood emblem on this promo. The Olympic flag has now been switched from Tom Cruise to four-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson. 

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: Tom Cruise on a motorcycle!

Tom Cruise motors in between a line of Olympic medal-winning athletes, waving the Olympic flag as he goes. And now he’s on the streets of Paris, travelling to… LA? He jumps off a airplane, Mission Unimaginable model.

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: Tom Cruise is right here!

Tom Cruise is right here! And appears like he’ll make a grand entrance from the roof of the Stade de France!

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: Nationwide anthem of the US

The nationwide anthem of the USA is being sung by American R and B singer Gabriella Sarmiento Wilson, recognized extra popularly as H.E.R.

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: Olympic flag handover ceremony

The Olympic flag handover ceremony begins. The primary feminine mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, passes on the Olympic flag to the primary feminine mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass. The flag is waved excessive by Bass.

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: A phrase of appreciation for the orchestra

Be it the opening sequences of the closing ceremony or the Olympic anthem on the very finish, the orchestra have been the mainstays of your complete programme tonight. They deserve a spherical of applause.

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: Olympic flag lowered

The Olympic flag has been lowered. That is formally the top of the Paris Olympics 2024, the thirty third version of the Summer season Video games.

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: “Vive La France!”

“Mercy Paris, Vive la France” says Thomas Bach to conclude his speech. The orchestra then play out the Olympic anthem, as Bach, Estanguet and the representatives of every continent stand arm-in-arm.

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: “The primary Olympic video games with full gender parity”

A powerful assertion by Bach, earlier than he follows it up with a not-so-excellent pun, calling it the ‘Seine’-sational Video games.

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: Bach addresses the athletes

“You’ve got made the Metropolis of Love shine brighter than ever earlier than,” says IOC President Thomas Bach to the athletes at Paris 2024.

“You created a tradition of peace despite the fact that your nations are divided by conflict,” he provides.

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: One other glimpse of the Indian contingent!

Some extra of the Indian contingent on the closing ceremony! Bhaker’s coach Jaspal Rana leads the group, and India’s youngest-ever medalist Aman Sehrawat can be current.

Closing Ceremony LIVE: Spherical of speeches now

Time for the essential males to handle the gang. Paris Olympics organizing committee President Tony Estanguet and IOC President Thomas Bach are set to talk.

Closing Ceremony LIVE: Phoenix wrap up!

A bunch of great songs by French indie rock band Phoenix, and there section within the closing ceremony attracts to a detailed.

Closing Ceremony LIVE: ‘Tonight’ ft. Ezra Koenig on present

Phoenix’s track ‘Tonight’ that includes American musician Ezra Koenig is being performed. Eager video avid gamers might acknowledge the track from the FIFA 23 soundtrack.

Closing Ceremony LIVE: Thomas Mars centre stage

Phoenix lead singer Thomas Mars is lighting up the Stade de France in the intervening time, in a melodious array of songs. A welcome change from the eerieness of the play earlier than. 

Closing Ceremony LIVE: Stade de France in blue and purple smoke

The Stade de France was first lined in blue smoke, very similar to the jersey of the French nationwide group. It rapidly switches to purple because the singer adjustments.

Closing Ceremony LIVE: Indie rock band Phoenix carry out

Fashionable French indie rock band Phoenix, primarily based in Versailles, have their flip to carry out on the closing ceremony.

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: Glimpse of Manu-Sreejesh

It has been a protracted wait, however now we have some glimpses of our two flagbearers: Manu Bhaker and PR Sreejesh!

Picture courtesy: PTI

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: The Olympic rings come alive

The enactment of the excavation of the Olympic rings involves an finish, because the rings are joined within the night time sky on the centre of the Stade de France. The efficiency receives an unlimited applause from the 70,000-odd within the stadium.

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: The hymn to Apollo

The oldest hymn of historical Greece, the hymn to Apollo, is being performed on the piano, as an air of serenity envelopes the Stade de France. There was fairly a change of environment from the dancing athletes to this over the previous few minutes.

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: That means behind the efficiency

The efficiency is a play on the rebirth of the Olympics, and the excavation of the Olympic rings. First hosted by Paris in 1900, the act symbolizes the change from antiquity to the trendy period in 2024.

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: An charisma

Totally different sorts of performers contained in the Stade de France, as lots of smoke lies within the centre of an in any other case darkish stadium. 

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: Gala continues in Paris

Stade de France is being lit up by the sound of the orchestra and glittered by performers arriving in varied costumes. It’s fairly a grand present right here, because the origins of the Olympics are performed out.

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: 4 new IOC members

4 new members inducted into the IOC athletes fee, to be the voice of the athletes for the following Olympics and past. They’re:

Alysson Felix – Athletics (USA)

Kim Bui – Gymnastics (Germany)

Jessica Fox – Canoe (Australia)

Marcus Daniell – Tennis (New Zealand)

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: Volunteers enter

The volunteers make their manner into the Stade de France. The unsung heroes who hold such a grand occasion ticking on so many scales. 

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: Ladies’s marathon medal ceremony

We are actually having the medal ceremony of the ladies’s marathon, one of many occasions on the ultimate day of Paris 2024. 

Kenya’s Hellen Obiri takes bronze, Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa claims silver and Netherlands’ Sifan Hassan wears a proud gold round her neck.

Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE: We’re the Champions!

And there is the traditional! Queen’s ‘We’re the Champions’ performs on the Stade de France. An unmissable from track from any sporting ceremony playlist.