THANK YOU PARIS! Closing Ceremony Highlights | #Paris2024
Tom Cruise introduced a contact of Hollywood glamour to the Olympics closing ceremony in Paris on Sunday evening when he hurled himself off the roof of the Stade de France — firmly secured to a cable, in fact — to cheers from the 71,500-strong crowd.
After rappelling all the way in which to terra firma to the Mission Not possible soundtrack performed by Grammy-winning R&B artist H.E.R , the film legend grabbed the Olympic flag, jumped on a bike, and raced out of the stadium. Viewers world wide had been then handled to a slickly produced motion sequence that includes Cruise racing by means of the streets of Paris, driving straight onto an plane, and parachuting into Los Angeles — the placement of the 2028 Olympics — earlier than handing the flag to American mountain biker Kate Courtney.
Passing the flag from the present host metropolis to the subsequent one is a part of the Olympic custom and so utilizing a consultant like Cruise made good sense for an Olympic Video games being held in a metropolis that’s residence to Hollywood. The sixty-two-year-old Cruise has lengthy been recognized to like performing his personal stunts (together with this completely loopy one in Mission: Not possible – Rogue Nation), and so the closing ceremony offered a superb alternative for him so as to add one more one to the listing.
The film star additionally posted a photograph of himself on the Olympic stadium with the message, “Thanks, Paris! Now off to L.A.”
Thanks, Paris! Now off to LA. pic.twitter.com/MxlAb0hZbT
— Tom Cruise (@TomCruise) August 11, 2024
Happening inside the confines of a stadium, the Paris Olympics’ closing occasion was a extra conventional affair in comparison with the opening ceremony final month, which passed off exterior for the primary time within the sporting extravaganza’s historical past. Whereas rain on the opening occasion soaked athletes and the gathered crowds, Sunday evening’s closing ceremony loved respectable climate in what appeared to be an thrilling night of leisure.
