Paris is Preparing for the 2024 Olympics Closing Ceremony after Opening Event Furore

After more than two weeks of sporting action, Paris is preparing for the closing ceremony of the 2024 Olympics, which will take place tomorrow, Sunday 11 August, at the Stade de France stadium, which hosted the athletics and rugby sevens events during the Games.

The ceremony is scheduled to start at 20:00 BST and end at 22:30.

The closing ceremony will include a unique artistic and spectacular part and more traditional elements:

A Parade of Athletes.

Acknowledgement of 45,000 volunteers.

The medal ceremony in the women's marathon.

The extinguishing of the Olympic flame, which will be brought from Tuileries, where the cauldron was on display and visited by tens of thousands of fans.

Announcement of the end of the Olympic Games by Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee

Handing over the Olympic flag from Anne Hidalgo to Karen Bass to the respective mayors of Paris and Los Angeles.

The Closing Ceremony will also feature artists, dancers and circus performers alongside renowned headliners, both French and American. Artistic Director Thomas Jolly said the show is called "The Recordings" and it promises to take the audience on a sci-fi thrilling journey through time. It will start with the origins of the Olympic Games and move on to a dystopian future where the Olympic Games have disappeared and need to be reinvented.

The organisers have remained tight-lipped about who will appear, but rumour has it that film star Tom Cruise will take part by rappelling down the stadium.

There will be a segment during which Paris will hand over to the next host of the Summer Olympics - Los Angeles in 2028 - and that could be where the Hollywood star is.

Snoop Dogg is also expected to perform, as well as French artists Air and Phoenix.