Tom Cruise introduced a contact of Hollywood glamour to the Olympics closing ceremony in Paris on Sunday evening when he hurled himself off the roof of the Stade de France — firmly secured to a cable, after all — to cheers from the 71,500-strong crowd.
After rappelling all the best way to terra firma to the Mission Impossible soundtrack performed by Grammy-winning R&B artist H.E.R , the film legend grabbed the Olympic flag, jumped on a bike, and raced out of the stadium. Viewers around the globe have been then handled to a slickly produced motion sequence that includes Cruise racing by the streets of Paris, using straight onto an plane, and parachuting into Los Angeles — the situation of the 2028 Olympics — earlier than handing the flag to American mountain biker Kate Courtney.
Passing the flag from the present host metropolis to the following one is a part of the Olympic custom and so utilizing a consultant like Cruise made excellent sense for an Olympic Games being held in a metropolis that’s house to Hollywood. The sixty-two-year-old Cruise has lengthy been recognized to like performing his personal stunts (together with this utterly crazy one in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation), and so the closing ceremony supplied a superb alternative for him so as to add yet one more one to the record.
The film star additionally posted a photograph of himself on the Olympic stadium with the message, “Thank you, Paris! Now off to L.A.”
Thank you, Paris! Now off to LA. pic.twitter.com/MxlAb0hZbT
— Tom Cruise (@TomCruise) August 11, 2024
Taking place throughout the confines of a stadium, the Paris Olympics’ closing occasion was a extra conventional affair in comparison with the opening ceremony final month, which befell outdoors for the primary time within the sporting extravaganza’s historical past. While rain on the opening occasion soaked athletes and the gathered crowds, Sunday evening’s closing ceremony loved first rate climate in what seemed to be an thrilling night of leisure.