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Paris Olympics Closing Ceremony live updates: 2024 Games come to a close, as the world looks ahead to Milan, L.A.

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Paris Olympics Closing Ceremony live updates: 2024 Games come to a close, as the world looks ahead to Milan, L.A.

Spectators watch from the second floor of the Eiffel Tower after the beach volleyball men’s gold medal match between Sweden and Germany at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Nearly as quickly as they arrived in Paris, the 2024 Summer Olympics are closing down. It seems like just yesterday that Celine Dion’s surprise performance on the Eiffel Tower put an exclamation point on a rainy Opening Ceremony that saw athletes from around the world enter the games in a boat parade down the Seine River.

Incredible performances from stars like Simone Biles, Katie Ledecky, Noah Lyles and Stephen Curry for Team USA were among the highlights, as were some big surprises, like the U.S. men’s gymnastics team taking home a bronze medal.

Controversies were also a part of this year’s Games, including American gymnast Jordan Chiles losing her bronze medal from the floor exercise and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif winning gold after a gender controversy grabbed headlines around the world in the middle of the Games.

The 2024 Paralympics are up next on the Olympic calendar, set for Aug. 28 to Sept. 8 in Paris. The next Winter Games are headed to Italy to be held in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo in February 2026, and the next Summer Olympics will be in Los Angeles in 2028.

Date: Sunday, August 11

Time: 3 p.m. ET

Location: Stade de France, Paris, FR

TV channel: NBC

Streaming: Peacock

Follow along with Yahoo Sports for the Closing Ceremony of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics.

Live2 updates

  • Paris’ woman mayor will pass Olympic flag to Los Angeles’ woman mayor

    Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo will pass the Olympic flag to another woman mayor during the closing ceremony in Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass. It’s the first time that the Olympic flag will be transferred from one woman mayor to another.

    Hidalgo is the first woman elected to be Paris mayor, winning her office in 2014. Bass was elected in 2022 as Los Angeles’ first woman mayor and is also the city’s second Black mayor, joining Tom Bradley.

  • Gold medalists Katie Ledecky, Nick Mead named USA flag bearers for Closing Ceremony

    Team USA announced Thursday that gold medal winners Katie Ledecky, a swimmer, and Nick Mead, a rower, will carry the flag at the upcoming Closing Ceremony.

    Ledecky’s accomplishments at the 2024 Games have been phenomenal. She won four medals: two gold, one silver and one bronze. Both of her golds came from individual events: the 1500m, in which she set a Olympic record and finished so far ahead of her competitors that you could see them continuing to swim in the background as she did her post-race interview; and the 800m, in which she won her fourth consecutive gold medal.

    Oh, there’s more. Her lifetime Olympic medal count is 14: nine golds, four silvers and one bronze. She is now the most decorated female Olympic swimmer of all time, has more Olympic gold medals than any other female swimmer in history, and tied Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina for the most golds for a female Olympian ever.

    Ledecky was emotional when she was told by teammate Robert Finke that she had been chosen as the Team USA flag bearer.

    Read the full story here.




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