The sun set on the Olympic Games in Paris on
Sunday. The closing ceremony included performances by Billie Eilish
, red hot chili peppers and snoop Dogg. All
music icons from California in a nod to the next
summer games host city of Los Angeles Hollywood was also
represented with Tom Cruise performing a stunt worthy of mission
impossible. L A mayor, Karen Bass became the
first black woman mayor to receive the Olympic flag.
She acknowledged Paris had set the bar high but expressed
confidence that her city would prove itself a worthy successor
. Thousands of Olympic fans celebrated outside the stade de
France before the 2.5 hour show. It also featured
an insect like golden Voyager who passed through a dystopian
future where the Olympics have vanished and must be rediscovered
. The finale concludes two weeks of sporting drama that
saw the United States and China duke it out for
the top spot in the medal table. Right down
to the last event. The American women's basketball team
on Sunday handed France a gut wrenching one point defeat
to earn a 40 th gold medal tying China's total
but the United States finished with the highest medal count
overall topping China by more than 30 silver and bronze 00:01:18.719 --> medals.