2024-08-12 13:06:16
Los Paris 2024 Olympic Gameswithout a doubt, were full of missions, especially for its organization. But during the closing ceremony it had its literal “impossible mission”, with the presence of the actor Tom Cruise and a leap worthy of the film series he stars in.
Cruise’s feat happened when President of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bachgave his closing speech of the Olympic fortnight that “these Games “They were ‘Sen(a)stional'”making a pun on the French pronunciation of the Seine River.
“It was a sensational Olympic Games from start to finish, or dare I say, ‘sensational’,” said the head of the Olympic movement at the Stade de France, where the closing ceremony for Paris 2024 is taking place.
Thomas Bach also wished to thank the French for their work: “The Paris 2024 Olympic Games were the Olympic Games of a new era (…) from every point of view. You can be proud of that.”“Dear French friends, you have fallen in love with the Olympic Games. And we have fallen in love with you,” he said.
At the end of the speech, the Olympic flag was handed over by the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, to her counterpart from Los Angeles, Karen Bass, accompanied by Gymnastics star Simone Bilesin a gesture that marks the beginning of the next Olympicswhich will culminate in the next edition of the Games, in Los Angeles in 2028.
The American singer-songwriter HER sang the anthem of her country and then it appeared Tom Cruisewho rappelled down from the roof of the Stade de France and after touching down and greeting the athletes, took the Olympic flag from Biles.
Flag in hand, the interpreter He left the stadium on a motorbike and through a video montage, he travelled through the streets of Paris until he took a plane that took him to Los Angeles, from where he jumped to land next to the famous panel of letters ‘Hollywood‘, whose of the last ‘oes‘ were converted into two of the five Olympic rings.