Tom Cruise rappelled into Stade de France arena during the Paris Olympics 2024 Closing Ceremony, during the closing ceremony on Sunday. It was followed by a pre-recorded video of Cruise skydiving onto the Hollywood sign in Los Angeles with the famous sign then adorned with Olympics sign.
The Paris Olympics 2024 came to a thrilling end on Sunday (August 11) night at the Stade de France stadium in the French capital. ‘Mission Impossible’ star Tom Cruise provided the fitting finale as Paris handed over the baton of the Olympics to Los Angeles – who are the hosts of next edition of the Olympics in 2028.
Cruise rappelled into Stade de France arena, during the closing ceremony on Sunday. It was followed by a pre-recorded video of Cruise skydiving onto the Hollywood sign in Los Angeles with the famous sign then adorned with Olympics sign.
Los Angeles rolled out a ‘skydiving’ Tom Cruise, Grammy winner Billie Eilish and other stars on Sunday as it took over Olympic hosting duties from the French capital, which closed out its 2024 Games just as they started — with joy and panache.
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Following in Paris’s footsteps in 2028 promises to be a challenge – they made spectacular use of their cityscape for its first Games in 100 years, with the Eiffel Tower and other iconic monuments becoming Olympic stars in their own right as they served as backdrops and venues for medal-winning feats.
Cruise — in his famous ‘Ethan Hunt’ persona — wowed by descending from the top of the stadium to electric guitar ‘Mission: Impossible’ background music. Once his feet were back on the ground — and after shaking hands with enthralled athletes — he took the Olympic flag from star gymnast Simone Biles, fixed it to the back of a motorcycle and roared out of the arena.
In 2004, Cruise participated in the Olympics opening ceremony, helping carry the Olympic torch through Los Angeles as it made its way around the world before resting in Athens, Greece, where the Games were taking place that year.
The appetite-whetting message was clear: Los Angeles 2028 promises to be an eye-opener, too. International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach got the party bug, jokingly calling the Paris Games ‘Seine-sational’ — a nod to the Seine river that, despite water quality concerns, staged Olympic triathlon and marathon swimming and the wacky and wonderful opening ceremony.
“We know that the Olympic Games cannot create peace, but the Olympic Games can create a culture of peace that inspires the world,” he said. “Let us live this culture of peace every single day.”
Cruise then provided a change of gear. After being lowered on a rope live from the roof’s giddy heights, Cruise drove his bike past the Eiffel Tower in a prerecorded segment, onto a plane and then skydived over the Hollywood Hills. Three circles added to the O’s of the famed Hollywood sign, creating five interlaced Olympic rings.
On the stadium’s giant screens, Eilish, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, rapper Snoop Dogg — wearing pants with the Olympic rings after being a popular feature of the Paris Games — and Dr. Dre kept the party going in an prerecorded show from a California beach.
