Goodbye, Paris; Welcome Los Angeles 2028

The baton of the Paris Olympic Games passes to Los Angeles and Who better than a Hollywood star like Tom Cruise to give us a preview of what the next edition of the Olympics will be like in four years? whose flame was extinguished this Sunday with a memorable closing ceremony. The protagonist of Mission: Impossible He made a daring jump, typical of his adventures in the saga, from the top of the Stade de France.

As the lights focused on Cruise on the roof, the 62-year-old actor rappelled down. He then made his way through the athletes to the stage and shook hands, took selfies and even gave a very effusive hug to a female athlete. As part of the handover of the Olympic flag from Hollywood to Los Angeles, which will host the Games in 2028, Cruise took the Olympic flag, anchored it to a motorcycle and left the stadium amid a crowd of athletes..

In true cinematic fashion, Cruise was next seen (in seemingly pre-recorded footage of him traveling through Paris) boarding a plane that defied space and time to get to Los Angeles. As the camera zoomed out, Cruise was seen with the Hollywood sign in the background and the Olympic rings replacing the two “o”s in the word Hollywood. This was the ‘impossible mission’ of spy Ethan Hunt who returns with a new installment of the franchise, the eighth, in 2025.

With this number, Cruise marked the end of these intense 19 days of sportwhere we have experienced great joys, but also shed some tears, like those caused by Carolina Marín’s departure, where we all broke down a little with emotion and anger.

The Stade de France took over from the Seine as host of the Olympic party after the closing ceremony. The stage was designed to resemble a world map: starting with Greece, which opened the event as the Olympic nation above all others, and the United States, the host country of the next Games. A floating discotheque on the Seine put the finishing touch to the river parade with the nations that have participated in these Gameswhere Spain has brought home 5 golds, 4 silvers and 9 bronzes.

Léon Marchand, the most decorated athlete of the Games

Leon Marchandthe most decorated athlete of the Games, in the Tuileries Garden, He approached alone to extinguish the flame which for 17 days illuminated the hot air cauldron, a balloon 30 metres high and 22 metres in diameterThe great swimmer from Toulouse extracted a part of the flame that he was to transport to the Stade de Francewhere their colleagues, regardless of nationality, race or gender, gave meaning to the Olympic spirit, a nod to the past, to the first Games, when all the medals were awarded at the closing ceremony.

When this happened, Léon Marchand was already closer to the Stade de France, where Emmanuel Macron and Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, were waiting for him.sharing the honor box. The Spanish delegation had Maria Perez y Jordan Diaz.

Léon Marchand, already on his final journey to the Stade de France, arrived at his destination with the stage transformed into a modern music festival with the band Phoenixa French indie rock group formed in Versailles in the late 1990s. Then Dj Kavinsky, a French music producer and Belgian singer Angèle. In this atmosphereThomas Bach gave his last speech as president of the International Olympic Committee, in which he described the Paris Games as “sensational”, referring to the Seine.

The Olympic flag, which was the star of the cameras, was then passed from the hands of Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, to Karen Bass, her counterpart in Los Angeles. She handed it over to Simone Biles.It was at that moment that Tom Cruise’s surprise sprang up, coming down from the top of the Stade de France, picking up the flag from the gymnast’s hands and transporting it by land and air to Los Angeles.

On the other side of the Atlantic, on Santa Monica beach, the Olympic baton was received under the rhymes of Snoop Dogg, that flag. Léon Marchand, the great hero and star of the evening (with permission from Tom Cruise) completed his journey to the Olympic stadium and made his entrance to blow out the Olympic flame and close the Paris Olympic Games. Welcome Los Angeles 2028.