Hollywood legend Tom Cruise jumps from the ROOF the stadium in death-defying stunt during extravagant handover ceremony that transformed the Hollywood sign into Olympic rings before performances from Billie Eilish Red Hot Chili Peppers and Snoop Dogg

Hollywood legend Tom Cruise has been noticed standing on the roof of Stade de France stadium as he prepares for his death-defying abseiling stunt. 

The 62-year-old might be seen strapped right into a harness, able to wow the 1000’s of followers in Paris, because the wacky closing ceremony attracts to an finish. 

He took up his place because the speeches concluded for his grand finale and US R ‘n’ B star H.E.R. sang and performed the Stars And Stripes, American nationwide anthem on her guitar.

The actor then rappelled down onto the ceremony stage from the roof of the Stade de France.

Cruise was handed the five-ringed Olympic flag which he loaded onto the again of a ready motor-cycle.

Wearing his trade-mark High Gun black leather-based jacket, the motion star then drove out of the sector standing up.

The change throughout the Atlantic will characteristic stay performances by pop famous person Billie Eilish, LA rockers Purple Sizzling Chili Peppers and Snoop Dogg.

The present stopping ceremony has seen a ‘golden bee-man’ descend into the stadium, in addition to a floating pianist and ‘bathroom roll mummies’ dancing round, because the closing ceremony shapes as much as be as unusual as the beginning of the video games. 

After the golden voyager was lowered to the stage from the roof, a cloaked particular person introduced them with a Greek flag, to symbolize the Video games historic origin.

The voyager was later joined on stage by some acrobats who have been dressed as alien-like creatures who helped him uncover the Olympic rings which have been hoisted from the stadium ground.

French pianist and opera singer Benjamin Bernheim then delivered a rendition of Hymn To Apollo as composer Alain Roche performed on a piano whereas being suspended within the air.

After the efficiency athletes launched a ‘pitch invasion’ of the stage as the group have been proven a movie of the victories and failures in the course of the Video games.

Bulletins in French and English appealed for the rivals to get off the stage, however many didn’t take discover, jeopardising the present.

After being ejected from the stage the place Phoenix have been taking part in some athletes left the sector. Whereas others continued to bounce, bounce and wave their arms within the air.

Paris 2024 organiser Tony Estanguet was given a rousing applause as he informed how the Video games had lifted the spirits of everybody who participated or watched – together with the whale that photo-bombed the browsing remaining in Tahiti.

He thanked everybody who had performed their half in making these Olympic Video games successful – the volunteers, the safety forces and most of all of the athletes.

He informed the rivals: ‘You made us pleased, you made us proud, thanks very a lot.’

He added that he was happy with amongst all of the data damaged in the course of the Video games was probably the most marriage proposals ever made on the competitors.

Earlier within the evening a rendition of Beneath The Paris Sky was carried out by French singer Zaho de Sagazan and an accompanying choir.

The group carried out the music within the Tuileries Backyard in Paris earlier than French four-time gold medallist swimmer Leon Marchand appeared to carrying a small flame to the Stade de France.

Because the orchestra gave a elevating addition of ‘La Marseillaise’ French nationwide anthem earlier than flag bearers of every of the competing nations walked into the sector, as the group cheered.

Gold medallists Alex Yee and Bryony Web page walked out as Nice Britain’s flagbearers.

The smiling pair have been seen in floral shirts and blue shorts, as Yee nearly tripped whereas staring in awe across the stadium. 

After 1000’s of Olympians poured into the Stade de France with their nation, they joined collectively for some karaoke.

The sing-along part included Les Champs-Elysees, Gala Rizzatto’s Freed From Need and Queen’s basic We Are The Champions

Controversial gender-row boxer Imane was imagined to be the Algerian flag bearer. However she was absent from the ceremonial function on the Olympic Closing ceremony. 

Hollywood motion man Tom Cruise is anticipated to carry a dramatic finale to the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games, which has been hailed a roaring success regardless of a rain-drench and chaotic begin.

Because the inventive present started a gold coated determine descended from the sky onto the stage.

The ceremony platform symbolised a map of the nations of the world, with totally different sections representing Africa, Asia, North and South America, Australia and Europe.

With large Olympic medal was propped up within the ‘sea’.

The determine carried out acrobatic twists as a goddess determine rose out of one of many so-called nation states.

Then a number of dozen performers carried out an elaborate dance routine and acrobatic tips throughout the totally different continents, encased in large steel wheels, representing the 5 Olympic rings.

The common look of the legendary rapper Snopp Dogg has been hailed by Olympic chiefs for serving to introduce the Video games to a document viewers of half the world’s inhabitants.

Because the Princess of Wales took to social media to reward Staff GB’s superb efficiency alongside a rugged-looking Prince William. 

The athletes have been joined by the group of many 1000’s to sing alongside because the music ‘Champs Elysee’ was performed.

After which the stadium rocked to the dance anthem ‘Free From Need’.

Final evening the Algerian Olympic Committee claimed it was ‘regular’ for the nation to cease gender-row boxer Imane Khelif from being the nation’s flag bearer for the Closing Ceremony on the final minute.

She was changed by 17-year-old gold medal gymnast Kaylia Nemour.

A spokesman stated: ‘It is vitally regular that Imane Khelif doesn’t carry the flag of Algeria although we introduced that she would.

‘[Gold medal gymnast] Kaylia Nemour is a younger ladies and it’s completely proper that she ought to take this function.

‘That is nothing uncommon.’

The Royal couple posted on Instagram tonight: ‘Properly carried out @TeamGB, what an unbelievable journey!

‘Each athlete confirmed immense dedication, coronary heart and keenness. You made us all so proud!

‘Here is to celebrating each triumph at @Paris2024 and looking out ahead to extra from the paralympics later in the summertime.’

French indie band Phoenix and digital duo Air are additionally set to carry out however pleased home heroes Daft Punk is not going to get the occasion going, regardless of widespread calls throughout France for them to look within the present.

Cruise, 62, is considered one of many US personalities who’ve jetted into the French capital to observe the occasions.

Rapper Snoop Dogg has been an nearly everlasting characteristic all through the Video games, Hollywood actors Eva Mendes, Ryan Gosling, Sharon Stone and Nicole Kidman have been noticed watching occasions.

Rock legend Mick Jagger is also on the town and has been watching TeamGB athletes battle it out across the observe along with his companion Melanie Hamrick and their eight-year-old son Deveraux.

Gold medal winners Alex Yee, who received the triathlon, and trampolinist Bryony Web page have been chosen to be Staff GB’s flag-bearers to guide the athletes’ closing parade contained in the stadium within the French capital.

The King has additionally despatched a message congratulating rivals and describing them as ‘an inspiration’. 

It learn: ‘My spouse joins me in sending our warmest congratulations to the rivals and their help groups from Staff GB and throughout the entire Commonwealth, for his or her many excellent successes on the Olympic Video games in Paris.

‘Your achievements, throughout so many disciplines, have been solid from that invaluable mixture of uncooked expertise, true grit and exhausting toil over a few years, burnished these previous weeks by sportsmanship and group spirit within the most interesting custom of the Video games.

‘To those that missed out on the best prizes, you will have most actually not fallen brief within the delight that you simply, too, have generated to your nations.

‘As we thank France for internet hosting such an exquisite match and look to the Paralympics forward, I can solely say that you’ve all been an inspiration.’

The honour was bestowed upon the pair after being nominated by a British Olympic Affiliation council. 

They may carry the flag into the Stade de France on Sunday night.

Yee cemented himself as probably the most profitable Olympic triathlete of all time when he received two medals in Paris.

The 26-year-old took house the gold medal within the males’s particular person triathlon, surpassing New Zealand’s Hayden Wilde on the ultimate stretch to win.

Whereas Web page received Britain’s first ever medal in gymnastics.  

The 2-and-a-half hour ceremony will characteristic performances by greater than 100 dancers and circus artists.

In addition to the distinctive inventive part, the closing ceremony can even embody extra conventional components, together with: the parade of athletes, the thanking of the 45,000 volunteers and the medal ceremony for the ladies’s marathon.

Even earlier than the ceremony started the 1000’s of followers who had packed into the sprawling Stade de France stadium regardless of the day’s sweltering 33 Celsius warmth roared with delight.

They carried out a ‘Mexican Wave’ across the enviornment that had hosted the Video games’ athletics occasions as they waited for the present to begin.

An orchestra began the present as movie of the opening ceremony have been replayed to the viewers and to TV audiences the world over.

French swimming sensation Leon Marchand, who received 5 medals within the pool, together with 4 golds, is anticipated to carry the home down with applause.

The Prime Minister has congratulated Staff GB’s athletes and praised them for uplifting a brand new technology of athletes because the Paris Olympics come to an finish.

Sir Keir Starmer posted on X, previously Twitter: ‘To all our unbelievable @TeamGB athletes and help employees, effectively carried out and congratulations.

‘You are bringing house extra than simply medals. You have impressed a brand new technology of athletes whereas entertaining a nation. Thanks.’

Creative director Thomas Jolly stated the present was known as ‘Data’, and it guarantees to take the viewers on a science-fiction dream-like immersive journey by time.

That can start from the origins of the Olympic Video games and can go to a dystopian future when the Olympics have disappeared and should be reinvented.

The extinguishing of the Olympic flame can be introduced from Tuileries, the place the cauldron has been on show and visited by tens of 1000’s of followers.

The proclamation of the top of the Olympic Video games, can be made by the President of the Worldwide Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach.

And the handover of the Olympic flag can be made by Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo to Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles.

No matter occurs tonight Paris 2024 organisers can be anxious to keep away from a repeat of the controversy sparked by the opening ceremony, which featured drag queens in a sequence that some Christians and conservatives thought mocked the Biblical story of the Final Supper.

Nevertheless, there is no such thing as a worry that the torrential rainstorm that marred most of the performances in the course of the elaborate opening ceremony will return tonight.

And additional acts of sabotage that wreck France’s railway community – leaving tens of 1000’s stranded – should not anticipated, following an enormous safety clampdown throughout the capital.

The Paris 2024 Paralympics will run between Wednesday 28 August and Solar 8 September with the opening ceremony held on the Place de la Concorde within the centre of the French capital. 

The Los Angeles Olympics opening ceremony will happen on 14 July 2028, with the closing ceremony simply over two weeks later, on 30 July. It will likely be the third time that LA hosts the world’s premier sporting occasion.

The US megacity – which is the house of some 7.8 vehicles – has pledged to make the 2028 Olympic Video games nearly car-free.

Amongst a bunch of latest sports activities to characteristic can be T20 cricket, lacrosse, baseball, squash and flag soccer – aka non-contact gridiron.

Browsing, skateboarding and sport climbing – massive hits on the French Video games – will survive.

However breakdancing – which debuted at Paris 2024 and was extensively mocked – is not going to characteristic.

This comes as Paris was thrown into chaos this afternoon when a topless prankster pressured the Eiffel Tower to be evacuated simply hours earlier than town’s showpiece Olympics closing ceremony.

The blonde, shirtless man was filmed scaling the 1,000ft-tall landmark above the primary viewing deck and the Olympic rings that adorn the second part of the monument at round 2.45pm native time (1.45pm BST).

Flustered guests informed MailOnline as we speak how they have been rapidly ushered down the tower’s stairwell by emergency crews as they detailed chaotic scenes.

Footage emerged of a topless man being led away in handcuffs by police, earlier than turning to the individual filming and saying, in what seems to be a British accent, ‘it is bloody sizzling, innit?’. 

Police escorted guests away from the realm at round 3pm and the entry beneath the tower was closed.

Some guests have been briefly locked on the second ground however have been allowed to exit round half-hour later.

On situation of anonymity due to an ongoing investigation into the incident, a Paris police official informed The Related Press: ‘A person began climbing the Eiffel Tower at 2.45pm, police intervened and the individual was detained.’