It's auvoir to the Summer Games producers really testing my
French there.
Ferris wrapping up its hosting duties with an extravagant closing
ceremony as France passes the torch to the US,
who will host the next Summer Games in Los Angeles.
International correspondent Ross Cullen reports from Paris.
Well, after 2 1/2 weeks of competition,
the Paris 2024 Olympic Games have now come to a
close.
You might remember the opening ceremony was affected by torrential
rain at the start of the Games.
No such problems on Sunday evening for the closing ceremony,
which began with a glorious sunset and then finished in
the national stadium,
the Stade de France in the north of Paris.
A parade of athletes and spectacular.
Show was put on because there was always a look
back over the past 2 1/2 weeks by the host
nation,
by France to remember all the achievements in their part
of the ceremony and always in the Olympic closing events.
There is a look forward to the next hosts and
Los Angeles in 2028.
The passing of the Olympic flag from one mare to
another,
from Anidalgo to Karen Bass.
Also American superstars taking part in the ceremony like Snoop
Dogg,
Red Hot Chili Peppers and Billy Eilish.
To throw forward to that Hollywood glitz and glamour that
we can expect in California in four years time.
The French also looking back on this amazing 2 1/2
weeks.
There have been some problems,
For example, the race to try to get the Sen
River clean for the triathlon to take place.
But overall real sense of festivity,
a real sense of joy as the Olympic Games came
back to France for the first time in 100 years,
the first time since 1924 they have been staged.
Here in France. So an amazing 2 1/2 weeks of
sporting action and a spectacular closing ceremony to cap it
all off Cullen Scripps News in Paris.