The ceremony put a final flourish to Paris’ first Games in a century, with an artistic show that celebrated Olympic themes, golden fireworks and thousands of athletes partying into the night.
Fireworks explode outside the Stade de France as French singer-songwriter Yseult performs “My Way” during the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 on Aug. 11, 2024 in Paris, France.
Even Bach got the party bug, jokingly calling the Paris Games “Seine-sational” — a nod to the Seine River that, despiteAt what will be his last Games after announcing his intention to step down next year, Bach also made a somber appeal for ”a culture of peace” in a war-torn world. Multiple French athletes crowd-surfed. U.S. team members jumped up and down in their Ralph Lauren jackets.
Reappearing later in the stadium to spectators’ chants of “Léon, Léon,” Marchand then blew out the flame. The Summer Games were over.who killed 130 people in and around Paris on Nov. 13, 2015. The joy and celebrations that swept Paris during the Games as Marchand and other French athletes racked up 64 medals — 16 of them gold — marked a major watershed in the city’s recovery from that night of terror.
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