{"id":4301,"date":"2024-08-12T15:16:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T15:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/?p=4301"},"modified":"2024-08-12T15:16:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T15:16:49","slug":"paris-olympics-2024-closing-ceremony-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/?p=4301","title":{"rendered":"Paris Olympics 2024 closing ceremony \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This page is now closed. Thanks for joining us. These were the updates from the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics 2024 on Sunday, August 11:<\/p>\n<ul tabindex=\"-1\">\n<li>The Paris Olympics 2024 comes to an end with the closing\u00a0ceremony.<\/li>\n<li>The event at Stade de France in Paris moved to Los Angeles at the end, ahead of the 2028 Games, where Billie Eilish, Snoop Dogg, Dr Dre and the Red Hot Chili Peppers performed on Venice Beach.<\/li>\n<li>Prior to that, Hollywood actor Tom Cruise\u00a0abseiled\u00a0from the roof of the stadium in the French capital to collect the Olympic flag ahead of it\u2019s journey to LA.<\/li>\n<li>The opening ceremony\u00a0was held on July 26 and was staged on the Seine in the French capital.<\/li>\n<li>The event marked the first time the opening ceremony was\u00a0not held inside the Olympic Stadium of the host city.<\/li>\n<li>Lady Gaga was the headline and first act of the event, which ended with the lighting of the cauldron in a hot-air balloon next to the Louvre art museum.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>The final medal count top four:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Team USA:<\/strong>\u00a0Gold 40, silver 44, bronze 42. Total: 126<\/li>\n<li><strong>China:<\/strong>\u00a0Gold 40, silver 27, bronze 42. Total: 91<\/li>\n<li><strong>Japan:<\/strong>\u00a0Gold 20, silver 12, bronze 13. Total: 45<\/li>\n<li>Australia Gold 18<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page is now closed. Thanks for joining us. These were the updates from the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics 2024 on Sunday, August 11: The Paris Olympics 2024 comes to an end with the closing\u00a0ceremony. The event at Stade de France in Paris moved to Los Angeles at the end, ahead of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ball","category-breaking-news"],"views":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4304,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301\/revisions\/4304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldinsight.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}