The spectacular Olympic Games in Paris end with a big closing show. This is what the international media writes:
Le Figaro: “Even if the show was not as grand as the opening ceremony – it was difficult to fight against the Seine – some spectacular visual scenes will remain in the memory.”Le Monde: “Paris concludes its Games with a grandiose celebration and extends its hand to Los Angeles. Poetic and lively images alternate in a three-hour ceremony with many surprises.”
Le Parisien: “These games will mark us forever. Paris puts on a Hollywood-worthy show and sends Los Angeles into the race. Gold for Paris, the French team and the security forces.”
L’Equipe: “The flame has gone out, but memories of two wonderful weeks remain for eternity.”
New York Times: “The celebration that closed the games — with acrobats, a Tom Cruise performance and a carpet of fireworks — was not as bold as the boat parade on the Seine that opened the games 17 days earlier, but it was still a fitting finale to a night that elevated sport and style and theater to high art.”Los Angeles Times: “No other city in the world can do what Paris has done for the past three weeks, presenting the drama of Olympic competition against the backdrop of a glittering Eiffel Tower and the magnificent gardens of Versailles. The 2024 Olympics, with their classic trappings and endless visual beauty, have raised an important question: How can Los Angeles possibly top it?”
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The Times: “France ends the Olympics with a bang in a high-energy closing ceremony. A Hollywood spectacle, an ethereal light show featuring a Golden Time Traveller with the face of a housefly and more dancing than you could wish for.”
Mirror: “Tom Cruise performed a breathtaking jump from the stadium roof as the Olympics staged a crowd-pleaser for the finale.”
Japan Times: “France ends its Olympic party with Tom Cruise and Leon Marchand. After a turbulent preparation for the Games, France delivered a successful and largely problem-free Games.”
Clarin: “Farewell to Paris, off to Los Angeles: the athletes take to the stage, Tom Cruise jumps into the void. From a Stade de France that had been transformed into an apocalyptic world in which the Olympic Games did not exist, to a stadium dominated by loud music. A long night full of emotions.”
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Sydney Morning Herald: “French pomp meets American glamour at a spectacular graduation ceremony.”
The Star: “An incredible Olympic Games draws to a close and it is clear once again why the quadrennial event is the greatest sporting spectacle of all. The Olympics are better than the Rugby World Cup and the Football World Cup combined.”
El Pais: “Paris lights the way for Los Angeles. Goodbye to Paris 2024, the Games of Light after the cold, the pandemic silence of Tokyo. Reconciliation with the passion of sport, the festivities of a city packed with halls and stadiums. From Saint-Denis to Roland Garros, from La Défense to Le Bourget via the Place de la Concorde.”
Kronen Zeitung: “While the 2021 Summer Games in Tokyo and the 2022 Winter Games were still under the influence of the corona pandemic, the return of a real sporting festival was celebrated in Paris. This was also taken into account at the closing ceremony. (…) At the end there was a foretaste of the 2028 Games in Hollywood: lots of star power. R&B star HER performed the US national anthem, film hero Tom Cruise abseiled from the stadium facade and took the flag from Biles’ hand to bring it out of the stadium.”
Blick: “The organizers of the next Olympic Games in Milano Cortina (2026) and Los Angeles (2028) will have to stretch to at least catch up. But even the best organization is nothing without the enthusiasm of the people. After the sobering emptiness at the Corona Games in Tokyo three years ago, people longed for big emotions. No matter which stadiums you visited, they were almost always full.”
