St.-Denis, France • The 2024 Summer Games, a global sports festival that descended upon Paris for 19 days of spirited competition, drew to an end Sunday with a grandiose closing ceremony at the Stade de France. It was in this stadium more than two weeks ago that these Games got off to their roaring start, with roughly 80,000 fans cheering on French star Antoine Dupont and his rugby-sevens teammates, who went on to win the host nation’s first gold medal. More champions were crowned in the days that followed as...

SAINT-DENIS, France — Paris closed out two-and-a-half extraordinary weeks of Olympic sports and emotion with a boisterous, star-studded show in France’s national stadium, handing over hosting duties for the Summer Games to the next city in line: Los Angeles in 2028. With an artistic show that celebrated Olympic themes, golden fireworks and thousands of athletes partying into the night, the closing ceremony put a final flourish to Paris’ first Games in a century. In their enthusiasm, crowds of athletes rushed the stage during a highlight video from the Games, and...

In French, there are no goodbyes. Instead, Olympic crowds from Paris to the surfing venue in Tahiti were saying “au revoir” — see you again — as the 2024 Games drew to a close Sunday. After the 100-year wait since Paris’ last Games, no one can say when France’s capital and the Olympics will next embrace. But this much is certain: They’re both emerging changed — in some ways for the better — from their summer romance. Paris’ third Games — it also hosted in 1900 — have been filled...

The Olympic Games have ended in Paris with a dystopian closing ceremony featuring a "Golden voyager" from outerspace and Tom Cruise abseiling into the stadium. "The most difficult thing when you love is to say goodbye," said the president of this year's Olympics organising committee before handing over to a team representing Los Angeles, where the 2028 Olympics will be held. Gymnast Simone Biles joined Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass to accept the Olympic flag before the US national anthem was performed by singer H.E.R.. She stayed on stage to...