James FitzGerald
BBC News reporter at the Stade de France

There's sustained applause and big love in the stadium for the volunteers - as they, too, are paraded in front of the crowd.

Tens of thousands of those turquoise-clad helpers have been delivering the Olympics and Paralympics.

They've been everywhere: chaperoning the city's many visitors around labyrinthine Metro stations and vast security cordons, and even spraying the odd sun-baked spectator with water to cool them down.

Organisers have done an incredible job of transforming the Stade de France for tonight's closing ceremony.

With all the athletes out and the final medals handed over, it feels like we're ready for this show to really get going.

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Andrew Cotter
Commentator on BBC One

The volunteers have come from everywhere, 45,000 volunteers.

They are not just from the rest of France but you can apply and come from the rest of the world as well.

A moment now to recognise the efforts of all the volunteers who have helped to ensure the Games can run smoothly.

You'll have seen them at every event if you've been following along on TV.

American athlete Allyson Felix, German gymnast Kim Bui, Australian canoeist Jessica Fox and New Zealand tennis player Marcus Daniell are on the stage to hand over some flowers to those volunteers.

I was a volunteer at London 2012. We were called "Games Makers" and got a lovely purple outfit. Couldn't miss us!

Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill
London 2012 Olympic heptathlon champion

My favourite moment from the Games here in Paris has to be Keely Hodgkinson's fantastic gold medal.

Her performance was insane and it was sensational to watch.

Great Britain's Keely Hodgkinson put in a dominant display to scoop gold in the 800m final, bringing an end to her wait for a global title.

Hodgkinson had finished second at successive World Championships after winning silver on her Olympic debut in Tokyo as a teenager in 2021.

Those near misses seemed only to drive Hodgkinson on as she crossed the line in one minute 56.72 seconds, holding off a challenge from Kenyan rival Mary Moraa, before punching the air in delight.

Harry Poole
BBC Sport in Paris

Keely Hodgkinson's crowning moment was the undoubted highlight of the athletics at Paris 2024 from a Team GB perspective as the tenacious 22-year-old ended her wait for a global title.

The 22-year-old, a class above her rivals, had done enough to claim Olympic gold well before the finish line, and the emotion of her achievement had already started to hit as tears filled her eyes in those final metres before a golden tiara was placed upon her head.

Hodgkinson has spoken of how she has had to "grow up quickly" after being thrust into the limelight as a 19-year-old and emerging as the new poster girl of British athletics. Emotional as she stood on the podium day later, she allowed three years of relentless training and intense focus to come out.

It is only three years since Hodgkinson first starred on the global stage, claiming Olympic silver as a teenager in Tokyo, yet her journey to the top of the podium had still felt a long time coming following three successive global silvers.

In reality, that journey is only just getting started. The two-time European champion made a promise to herself that she would never finish second again after being unable to hide her immediate disappointment in Budapest - and now she will take some stopping.

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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is joining in with other leaders in congratulating Team GB.

In a post on X, external, he says its "incredible" athletes and support staff are "bringing home more than just medals".

"You’ve inspired a new generation of athletes while entertaining a nation," he adds.

We've got a montage of the yesterday's marathon pour tous (for all).

It took place after the men's marathon and saw 20,000 amateur runners take to the same course through the night.

Some dedication.

Having decided I'm taking up the pommel horse, I'll leave marathon running alone.

Gabby Logan
BBC Sport

My moment of the Games is a silver moment for Katarina Johnson-Thompson.

Following her career through four Olympic cycles, she had never got on the podium. She has had so many ups-and-downs and it felt like a gold.

Here's hoping, Mo.

Still an hour and a half to go.

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Now it's time for the medal ceremony for the women's marathon.

In the early days of the Olympic Games - way, way back - medals were presented on the final day.

That's no longer the case, but a part of the tradition lives on.

As in Rio and Tokyo, it is the marathon.

The Netherlands' Sifan Hassan won gold earlier today with Ethiopian Tigst Assefa taking silver and bronze going to Kenya's Hellen Obiri.

Hassan, who is taking two bronze and one gold away from Paris, has a beaming smile on her face as she stands in front of a crowd of athletes and a packed Stade de France.

This has to be the ultimate way to be handed your medal, right?

Katherine Downes
BBC Sport commentator

I'd say from a GB Games defining perspective, it was Keely's gold... but for me it was the French 1,2,3 in the BMX.

What a result and what a celebration! And I'll never forget the shout that went up across the neighbourhood when Teddy Riner won judo gold - I was tucking into some particularly good patisserie at the time...

Andrew Cotter
Commentator on BBC One

A bit of Freddie [Mercury] always gets them going.