By Richard Lough and John Irish PARIS (Reuters) -Paris will bring down the curtain on a Summer Games that brought dazzling sport to the heart of the French capital and restored the Olympics’ mojo, handing over the baton to Los Angeles and the star-studded razzle dazzle of Hollywood. While Paris used its most famous landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower and the Palace of Versailles as its star draw, LA is already turning to its home-grown A-list celebrities to impress the crowds. LA28 has said musicians and native Californians Billie Eilish, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Snoop Dogg, the U.
S. rapper who has been contributing to NBC Primetime’s coverage of the Games, will be performing in the closing ceremony. Grammy-winning artist H.
E.R. will perform the U.
S. national anthem live in Paris, while rumours have swirled around Paris that Tom Cruise will perform a stunt worthy of Mission Impossible. “This is the biggest moment in LA28 history to date, as the Olympic flag passes from Paris to LA,” LA28 Chairperson and President Casey Wasserman said in a statement.
The ceremony, which begins at 9 p.m. (1900 GMT), concludes two weeks of sporting drama that saw China and the United States duke it out for top spot in the medal table right down to the last event.
Echoing the heartache delivered to France by the United States in the men’s basketball final, the American women’s basketball side handed France a gut-wrenching one-point defeat to earn a 40th gold medal and top spot on the .