Paris 2024 Closing Ceremony LIVE CHAT

[Bear]

looks like a stylized version of the world map

[Scotguy II]

Looks like the Olympic Rings are hanging up ready to go too

[Daze]

On german TV they said, that the lantern with the flame will travel to the Stade de France

[rio2016man]

unbelievable Olympics congratulations to all the athletes and well done Paris

[Olympian2004]

And they added another information - don't look if you want to keep the suspense, although a bit of that is already known:
 

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Tom Cruise will travel through the city with the Olympic Flag (apparently the flag that shall be passed from Paris to Los Angeles) and then slide from the stadium's roof by zipline to the infield.

 

[Bear]

2 minutes ago, Olympian2004 said:

And they added another information - don't look if you want to keep the suspense, although a bit of that is already known:
 

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Tom Cruise will travel through the city with the Olympic Flag (apparently the flag that shall be passed from Paris to Los Angeles) and then slide from the stadium's roof by zipline to the infield.

 

just how i imagined it tbh, excited that it's actually happening

[Tatsh]

Passing vids of the games day by day. A quite long?

[Ikarus360]

I see Thomas Jolly keeps taking notes from the original Tokyo 2020+1 opening  

[sebastien1214]

2 minutes ago, Ikarus360 said:

I see Thomas Jolly keeps taking notes from the original Tokyo 2020+1 opening  

Yeah, well, ok, maybe there really is an inspiration from the Tokyo concept. (but it's the only one)

Otherwise: where are the boats?!? The weather is great in Paris and they didn't even think of doing the ceremony on the Seine?!? The idiots.

[Bear]

running the FranceTV stream in the background because i just KNOW that NBC will be cutting to ads at the worst moments

[yoshi]

1 hour ago, Scotguy II said:

Looks like according to reports that the Eiffel Tower will not feature in the ceremony so we won't see a grand fireworks ending from the tower similar to Sydney 2000 bridge spectacular

Is that planned from the start or because of the absolute weapon who tried to climb it earlier 

[sebastien1214]

2 minutes ago, Bear said:

running the FranceTV stream in the background because i just KNOW that NBC will be cutting to ads at the worst moments

You are making the right choice

[Bear]

20 minutes to go 🙂

[Olympian2004]

In German TV channel ZDF, they just played this version of "L'hymne à l'amour" in the background of a report about the significance of the Olympic Games. And I am not crying, you are crying. 

(I am literally bawling my eyes out here, and the closing ceremony hasn't even started yet 😂) 

 

HYMNE À L'AMOUR - Édith Piaf/Marguerite Monnot - Paris Tour Eiffel - Gautier Capuçon (youtube.com)

[Bear]

List of flagbearers:

https://stillmed.olympics.com/media/Documents/News/2024/08/2024-08-11-Closing-Ceremony-Flagbearers.pdf

[Ikarus360]

15 minutes ago, Bear said:

running the FranceTV stream in the background because i just KNOW that NBC will be cutting to ads at the worst moments

Its NBC. I stopped watching Opening Ceremonies there after how they butchered Beijing opening.

[Sir Rols]

I’ve just woken hubby and the kettles starting to boil. Bring it on!

[Bear]

while i know that this is still very much Paris and France's moment, i just hope that you all enjoy the LA handover when it happens 🙂

[JMarkSnow2012]

So, they've said they have checked for content that could be "misinterpreted" but I bet somebody will play the whole thing backwards over the next few days and "prove" that it's Satanic.

[Olympian2004]

1 minute ago, Sir Rols said:

I’ve just woken hubby and the kettles starting to boil. Bring it on!

And I have fixed myself a blanco de verano (white wine with sprite and ice cubes - delicious, if you haven't tried it yet), so I am prepared as well.  

[sebastien1214]

It's really weird for me to see a ceremony in a stadium.

[JMarkSnow2012]

Why can't I hear pouring rain in the background of the BBC commentary?

[Bear]

a return to the opening ceremony i see

[Ikarus360]

Here it comes!

[Bear]

oh the audio quality is not the best