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SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Paris is closing retired 2 and a half bonzer weeks of Olympic sports and emotion pinch a star-studded sunset show successful France’s nationalist stadium, handing complete hosting duties for nan Summer Games to nan adjacent metropolis successful line: Los Angeles successful 2028.
Speculation was rife that Hollywood prima Tom Cruise — seen astir municipality during nan last play — would characteristic successful the closing ceremony that dissimilar nan rain-drenched July 26 opening ceremony of nan 2024 Paris Games, basked successful sunny, basking weather. For now, French swimmer Léon Marchand started nan Olympic flame’s travel to nan Stade de France.
For Los Angeles, topping Paris could beryllium ngo impossible. The French superior made spectacular usage of its cityscape for its first Games successful 100 years. The Eiffel Tower and different iconic monuments became Olympic stars successful their ain right, serving arsenic backdrops and successful immoderate cases venues for competitions.
But Los Angeles was bringing prima powerfulness of its own: vocalist Billie Eilish, rapper and Paris Olympics champion Snoop Dogg, and nan Red Hot Chili Peppers are scheduled to perform Sunday arsenic portion of nan handover from nan City of Light to nan City of Angels.
Each of nan euphony artists is simply a California native, including H.E.R., who is expected to singing nan U.S. nationalist anthem unrecorded astatine nan Stade de France, which hosted Olympic way and section and rugby sevens. The assemblage was expected to apical 70,000 people.
The stadium, France’s largest, was 1 of nan targets of Islamic State gunmen and termination bombers who killed 130 group successful and astir Paris connected Nov. 13, 2015. The joyousness and celebrations that swept Paris during nan Games arsenic swimmer Léon Marchand and different French athletes racked up 64 medals — 16 of them golden — marked a awesome watershed successful nan city’s betterment from that nighttime of terror.
The closing ceremonial besides will spot nan past medals — each embedded pinch a chunk of nan Eiffel Tower — hung astir athletes’ necks.
Fittingly for nan first Olympics that aimed for gender parity, they’ll each beryllium women — nan gold, metallic and bronze winners from nan women’s marathon earlier Sunday.
The title — won by Sifan Hassan of nan Netherlands — took nan spot of nan men’s title that traditionally closed retired erstwhile Games. In Paris, nan men were bumped to nan last Saturday, pinch Ethiopia’s Tamirat Tola taking gold.
The move was portion of efforts successful Paris to make nan Olympic spotlight radiance much brightly connected nan sporting feats of women. Paris was besides wherever women first made their Olympic debut, astatine nan Games of 1900.
The U.S. squad again topped the badge table, pinch 126 successful each and 40 of them gold. Three were courtesy of gymnast Simone Biles, who made a resounding return to nan apical of nan Olympic podium aft prioritizing her intelligence wellness alternatively of title successful Tokyo successful 2021.
Following controversy that enveloped nan opening ceremony — assailed by erstwhile U.S. President Donald Trump, French bishops and others complete segments they felt poked nosy astatine Christianity — nan closing ceremonial was being intimately watched to spot whether artistic head Thomas Jolly had immoderate much surprises successful store.
Jolly and different members of his imaginative squad filed constabulary complaints complete decease threats and online vitriol targeting them and immoderate of opening show’s performers.
Critics jumped to nan conclusion that a conception featuring resistance queens and a DJ who is besides an LGBTQ+ icon had parodied “The Last Supper,” Leonardo Da Vinci’s coating showing Jesus Christ.
Jolly and his squad many times insisted that was ne'er their volition and sewage backing from French President Emmanuel Macron, who described himself arsenic “outraged and sad” by nan backlash against them.
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