Summary

  • Paris 2024 comes to a close after 16 days of thrilling action with ceremony at Stade de France

  • Hollywood star Tom Cruise abseils off the roof of Stade de France as flag is handed to 2028 hosts Los Angeles

  • Dr Dre joins Snoop Dogg on stage from Venice Beach in a star-studded occasion also featuring Billie Eilish and the Red Hot Chili Peppers

  • Trampoline gold medallist Bryony Page and Alex Yee, who won triathlon gold, are Great Britain's flagbearers

  • Tell us your favourite Paris 2024 moment - #bbcolympics, via WhatsApp on 03301 231826 or text 81111 (UK only, standard message rates apply)

Live Reporting

Michael Emons and Bobbie Jackson

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    My highlight was Helen Glover getting sliver.

    Jamie, Marlow

    Helen Glover, Esme Booth, Sam Redgrave and Rebecca ShortenGetty Images

  2. Stadium salutes volunteers

    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.

  3. 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.

    general view of Gold medalist Sifan Hassan of Team Netherlands (C), Silver medalist Tigst Assefa of Team Ethiopia (L) and Bronze medalist Hellen Obiri of Team Kenya (R) observe the national antheme on the podium during the Women's Marathon Medal ceremonyGetty Images
    French President Emmanuel Macron, flanked by his wife Brigitte Macron (2R), President of the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics Organising Committee (Cojo) Tony Estanguet (R), (front row center, from R) France's outgoing Minister for Sports and Olympics Amelie Oudea-Castera, French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and Paris's Mayor Anne Hidalgo attending the closing ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic GamesGetty Images

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    Moment of the Games for me was being there to see Keely win a gold medal. Such a small number of women have done that in Athletics it felt iconic. But then to also see the art of pole vaulting and a world record was the cherry on the cake.

    Mark C from Beverley, East Yorkshire

  5. 'Volunteers from everywhere'

    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.

  6. 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!

  7. The best images of Day 14

    US' Sha'Carri Richardson crosses the finish line to win ahead of France's Chloe Galet and Jamaica's Tia Clayton in the women's 4x100m relay final of the athletics event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Stade de FranceGetty Images
    Brazil's gymnasts perform with the hoop as they compete in the rhytmic gymnastics' group all-around qualification during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Porte de la Chapelle ArenaGetty Images
    Gold medallist France's Kauli Vaast of Team France surfs in the Seine river with the Eiffel tower in the background during the Paris 2024 Olympic GamesGetty Images

  8. 'Hodgkinson's performance was insane'

    My moment of the Games

    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.

  9. Watch: Hodgkinson wins gold

    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.

  10. 'A class above her rivals'

    My moment of the games

    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.

  11. Team GB has entertained the UK, says Prime Minister

    Sir Keir Starmer smiles while walking through a door. He is wearing a black suit and tieEPA

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

    In a post on X, 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.

  12. 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.

  13. The best images of Day 13

    Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson competes in the women's heptathlon high jump of the athletics event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Stade de FranceGetty Images
    US' Spencer Richard Lee (red) wrestles Uzbekistan's Gulomjon Abdullaev (Blue) in their men's freestyle 57kg wrestling semi-final match at the Champ-de-Mars Arena during the Paris 2024 Olympic GamesGetty Images
    Athletes dive into the Seine river as they take the start of the women's 10km marathon swimming final at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Pont Alexandre III bridge in ParisGetty Images

  14. 'It felt like a gold'

    My moment of the Games

    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.

  15. Here's hoping, Mo.

    Still an hour and a half to go.

    Gold Medallist Sharon van Rouwendaal of Team Netherlands celebrates during the Closing Ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024Getty Images

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    Whilst I love the celebrations of the achievements and rightly so, please, please, please, let the rest of the closing ceremony be as bonkers as the opening ceremony!

    Mo, Darlaston

  17. 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?

  18. Get involved - Your moment of the Games

    Moment of the Games? It has to be Pidcock in the cross country cycling. Superhuman effort. Had to be seen to be believed.

    Woz, Saddleworth

    Our moments of the Games: Alex Yee's late move in the Triathlon, Andy Murray, Duplantis' world record and the beach volleyball DJ playing Imagine.

    Diana and Phil, Staffordshire

  19. 'What a result and what a celebration'

    My moment of the Games

    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...

  20. Andrew Cotter
    Commentator on BBC One

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