Paris Olympics 2024 closing ceremony live updates as US top final medals table

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After two weeks of intense, thrilling competition between the world’s best athletes – not to mention a handful of controversies – the Paris Olympics are coming to an end.

The stage is (almost) set for a very different show to the lightning action that has electrified the purple running track at the Stade de France. For now, that is gone, or at least covered by a black carpet and a stage of different pointed shapes.

It’s all a mystery for now, but we’re around half an hour or so from the Closing Ceremony getting underway

The British Olympic Association says Team GB’s medal haul at Paris 2024 should be celebrated, despite Britain finishing in its lowest position in the table for 20 years.

Great Britain ended the Paris Olympics with 65 medals – the same amount won on home soil at London 2012 and second-best ever tally on foreign soil – with only the United States (126) and China (91) claiming more.

But Team GB won eight fewer gold medals than in Tokyo three years ago and were 13 down on the 27 collected at Rio 2016.

A final return of 14 gold, 22 silver and 29 bronze saw Britain slip to seventh spot in the medal table – its lowest place since finishing 10th at Athens 2004 – and third-best European nation behind hosts France and the Netherlands.

That was certainly not expected when Team GB chef de mission Mark England said last October that “the wheels are going to have to come off if we’re not top five”, while stating the aim was to be the best in Europe per gold medals won.

But BOA chief executive Andy Anson said at a post-Games briefing: “It’s hard to feel like that when we’ve won 65 medals.

“It’s frustrating to be seventh in the medal table, but we’ve got to celebrate first the number of fantastic moments, the way athletes have won their medals.”

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.

Athletes’ parade and handover of the Olympic flag

The closing ceremony will include traditional elements, including:

The parade of athletes and the thanking of the 45,000 volunteers.

The medal ceremony for the women’s marathon which was run this morning.

The extinguishing of the Olympic flame, which will be brought from Tuileries, where the cauldron has been on display and visited by tens of thousands of fans.

The proclamation of the end of the Olympic Games, made by the President of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach and the handover of the Olympic flag from Anne Hidalgo to Karen Bass – the respective mayors of Paris and Los Angeles.

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).”

Not everything about the ceremony has been revealed, with Paris set to keep a few surprises up its sleeve but Billie Eilish, Snoop Dogg and Red Hot Chili Peppers are poised to perform.

While Jimmy Fallon, Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski have also been linked with appearances. H.E.R. is expected to sing the American national anthem as part of the handover to Los Angeles 2028.

There is the prospect of Snoop Dogg featuring, too, after the rapper attended numerous events over the last fortnight.

“This is the biggest moment in LA28 history to date, as the Olympic flag passes from Paris to LA,” said LA28 chairperson Casey Wasserman in a statement.

“We are thrilled to feature the very best of LA with local artists and are grateful to Billie, H.E.R., the Chili Peppers and Snoop for their collaboration on what will be an incredible show to a global audience that will give fans a taste of what’s to come in 2028.”

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

For those watching on in the UK the Paris 2024 Olympics closing ceremony it will be live on BBC One, BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app.

Discovery+ will also have uninterrupted coverage on their app. Television coverage begins at 7pm BST.