Olympics closing ceremony LIVE: Tom Cruise, Billie Eilish and Snoop Dogg star in Paris 2024 finale

Billie Eilish, Snoop Dogg and Red Hot Chili Peppers made appearances in the Paris 2024 finale and the road to Los Angeles 2028 begins

Paris 2024 delivers spectacular Olympics closing ceremony at Stade de France

The Olympics concluded on a star-studded night at the Stade de France as Paris 2024 delivered a memorable closing ceremony.

But the spirit of the Games returned over the last two weeks and Paris provided an evening that included Tom Cruise, Billie Eilish, Snoop Dogg and Red Hot Chili Peppers as the baton was passed onto Los Angeles 2028.

Team USA topped the medal table, while France enjoyed its best return in terms of medals in 124 years, behind Leon Marchand in the pool.

As for Team GB, there were more medals on the final day to conclude a successful Games, securing one more medal overall but eight fewer gold medals than at Tokyo 2020.

Relive all the action from Sunday night’s closing ceremony below:

Olympics 2024 – latest medals and results

• Paris 2024 puts on star-studded closing ceremony to conclude Olympics
• Paris hands over to LA ahead of 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles
• Billie Eilish, Snoop Dogg and Red Hot Chili Peppers perform in LA
• Tom Cruise enters stadium from roof before driving motorcyle through streets of Paris with Olympic flag

[11 August 2024 19:10 · Jamie Braidwood]

Every Olympic flagbearer for Paris 2024 closing ceremony including Alex Yee and Katie Ledecky

The end of the Olympics has arrived with a closing ceremony at the Stade de France set to bring the curtain down on Paris 2024.

It’s been 17 days since the rain-soaked opening extravaganza on the River Seine and conditions are much brighter for the spectacle in Saint Denis.

While each country competing at the Olympics will also have their moment - although they will not be travelling down the Seine on boats this time.

Gold medallists Alex Yee and Bryony Page will be Great Britain’s flagbearers at the closing ceremony, and here’s a look at everyone else.

[11 August 2024 18:42 · Jamie Braidwood]

Olympics 2024: Alex Yee and Bryony Page to be Team GB’s flagbearer's

Gold medallists Alex Yee and Bryony Page will be Great Britain’s flagbearers at the closing ceremony for the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Yee claimed a dramatic victory in the men’s triathlon, overhauling New Zealand’s Hayden Wilde after looking booked for second place at one stage. He also takes home a bronze via the mixed relay competition, adding to his individual silver and relay gold from Tokyo.

He said: “It’s a massive honour. I got on the Eurostar yesterday expecting just to celebrate the success of Team GB and enjoy the closing ceremony, so to find out I’m going to be holding the flag is a real honour.

“I think it’s really special given the success triathlon has had before to be picked as the first flagbearer (from triathlon).”

Great Britain’s Alex Yee (PA Wire)

[11 August 2024 18:15 · Mike Jones]

When and where is the closing ceremony?

The closing ceremony will take place on Sunday, 11 August at 9pm local time (8pm BST) at the Stade de France, Paris.

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[11 August 2024 17:55 · Harry Latham-Coyle]

Athletics, rowing and equestrian pass Team GB’s Paris 2024 test in style

Among other sports, Great Britain’s rowers achieved their best medal haul from an overseas Olympics, while the athletes upgraded on their Tokyo tally at Paris 2024. But there was disappointment elsewhere as the cycling and sailing teams fell short of expectation overall as Team GB won eight fewer golds than they took home from Tokyo.

[11 August 2024 17:45 · Mike Jones]

Fifth-place finish for Britain in Paris cycling medal table as they lose summit

For the first time in two decades Great Britain did not finish top of the cycling medal table at an Olympic Games.

Paris 2024 saw Team GB fifth, below France, the Netherlands, Australia and the United States.

Eleven medals was more than any other nation, but this time the colours had changed. Two gold medals represented the lowest number since Athens in 2004, back before the extraordinary run of success that brought eight golds in Beijing and London, six in both Rio and Tokyo.

[11 August 2024 17:35 · Jamie Braidwood in Paris]

How Emma Finucane battled through self doubt to become Team GB’s star of the Olympics

When Chris Hoy and Laura Kenny picked out a British cyclist to watch ahead of the Olympics in Paris, it was worth sitting up and taking notice.

After seven brutal days at the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines National Velodrome and with the pressure of being Team GB’s next great hope, Emma Finucane did not just meet those expectations but surpass them. At her first Olympics, the 21-year-old from Wales became the first British woman in 60 years to win three medals at a single Games.

[11 August 2024 17:31 · Jack Rathborn]

What time is Olympics closing ceremony? Everything you need to know about Paris 2024 finale

The Olympics ends its two-week sporting extravaganza tonight when Paris 2024 delivers the closing ceremony.

After a memorable, action-packed Games, attention will turn to Los Angeles 2028 with a star-studded spectacle set to take place tonight at the Stade de France.

After the rain hit the opening ceremony along the Seine River, Paris should be better prepared for its final event at the iconic Saint-Denis stadium.

Here’s all you need to know about the closing ceremony, where 80,000 spectators will bring the curtain down on this year’s Olympic Games:

[11 August 2024 17:25 · Mike Jones]

Sebastian Coe explains stance over running for IOC president

World Athletics chief Lord Coe stopped short of officially declaring his candidacy for International Olympic Committee president but revealed he would “of course” consider running for the soon-to-be vacated role.

Thomas Bach, the current IOC president, revealed on Saturday he would stand down after his second term ends in 2025 despite calls from some corners for him to consider an extension that would allow him to stay in office longer.

Lord Coe is one year into a third and final term in his current post as World Athletics president after running unopposed last summer.

[11 August 2024 17:17 · Mike Jones]

Why is the world’s most populous nation 71st in the Olympics medal table?

India had to wait until the 13th day of the Paris Olympics to secure a medal higher than bronze, with flag-bearer Neeraj Chopra’s silver in the men’s javelin sending a wave of celebration tinged with relief through the medal-starved country.

India sent a contingent of 117 athletes to Paris, yet have a paltry haul of five bronze medals and Chopra’s solitary silver to show for it. They rank 71st in the medals table, below the likes of Hong Kong, Taiwan, North Korea, Cuba and Saint Lucia – a Caribbean island of just 180,000 people.

It’s a disappointing return to the norm for a country that registered its best-ever performance at the last Games in Tokyo in 2021: seven medals, including one gold. For the most populous nation on Earth, a sports-mad country of 1.4 billion which also boasts the world’s fifth largest economy, it’s a record as frustrating as it is puzzling.

[11 August 2024 16:57 · Harry Latham-Coyle]

Emily Campbell hopes Paris success will be inspiration for weightlifting’s next generation

Having blazed a trail to two Olympic medals, Emily Campbell hopes that her days as a lone figurehead for weightlifting are numbered.

Campbell self-funded her way to silver at Tokyo 2020 and thanks to that historic podium finish, the sport now enjoys National Lottery backing with a group of seven athletes featuring on UK Sport’s World Class Programme. That allows them to train full time, have access to the world’s best coaches and benefit from pioneering medical support.

The 30-year-old was the sole Team GB lifter to qualify for Paris, winning bronze. Crucially, she believes the conditions are now in place for that not to be the case at LA 2028 and beyond and will do everything in her power to ensure it doesn’t.