Paris Olympics Closing Ceremony live updates: 2024 Games come to a close, as the world looks ahead to Milan, L.A.

A general view as athletes arrive during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games , at the Stade de France, Paris. Picture date: Sunday August 11, 2024. (Photo by David Davies/PA Images via Getty Images) — Athletes make their way into Stade de France for the closing ceremony. (David Davies/PA Images via Getty Images)

Nearly as quickly as they arrived in Paris, the 2024 Summer Olympics are closing down. It seems like just yesterday that Celine Dion’s surprise performance on the Eiffel Tower put an exclamation point on a rainy Opening Ceremony that saw athletes from around the world enter the games in a boat parade down the Seine River.

Incredible performances from stars like Simone Biles, Katie Ledecky, Noah Lyles and Stephen Curry for Team USA were among the highlights, as were some big surprises, like the U.S. men’s gymnastics team taking home a bronze medal.

Controversies were also a part of this year’s Games, including American gymnast Jordan Chiles losing her bronze medal from the floor exercise and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif winning gold after a gender controversy grabbed headlines around the world in the middle of the Games.

The 2024 Paralympics are up next on the Olympic calendar, set for Aug. 28 to Sept. 8 in Paris. The next Winter Games are headed to Italy to be held in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo in February 2026, and the next Summer Olympics will be in Los Angeles in 2028.

Date: Sunday, August 11

Time: 3 p.m. ET

Location: Stade de France, Paris, FR

TV channel: NBC

Streaming: Peacock

Follow along with Yahoo Sports for the Closing Ceremony of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics.

Live29 updates

Sun, August 11, 2024 at 4:41 PM EDT

Dancers have spent this performance climbing and doing acrobatics on large circles metal circles. In the end, the circles are released towards the top of the arena and form the five Olympic rings. This whole sequence has looked quite stunning.

(Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 4:31 PM EDT

Now a grand piano and its player have been lifted from below the stage. The pianist Alain Roche is playing while dangling midair and upside down. What a spectacle.

Alain Roche plays a piano while dangling midair at the Olympics Closing Ceremony at Stade de France. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 4:29 PM EDT

Per NBC, this segment featuring the Golden voyager includes 110 performers and imagines a rebirth of the Olympic Games in a world where they didn’t exit.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 4:17 PM EDT

The spectacle is underway. A glimmering “Golden Voyager” is being lowered into Stade de France from the rafters.

The Golden Voyager has entered the building. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 4:11 PM EDT

Now the show’s about to start. The lights are down in Stade de France, and the on-field orchestra has been cued up.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 4:11 PM EDT

Olympic volunteers are now having their moment, honored in the Closing Ceremony. Per NBC, more than 45,000 people volunteered to make the Paris Games go.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 4:02 PM EDT

Hassan is able to hear the Netherlands’ anthem played in her honor, in front of the entire athlete delegation and the tens of thousands in the Stade de France crowd. Incredibly cool moment.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 4:00 PM EDT

The parade is over, and women’s marathon medalists are having their medal ceremony. Netherlands’ Sifan Hassan won gold earlier in the day. What a cool spot to be awarded an Olympic medal.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:57 PM EDT

Meanwhile, here’s Nikola Jokić, not at Stade de France, but back home in Sombor at the horse track a day after leading Serbia to basketball bronze in Paris. Because of course he is.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:55 PM EDT

They’re now playing Queen’s “We Are the Champions,” and athletes are passionately singing along. Apparently athlete karaoke is exactly what it sounds like.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:54 PM EDT

There are quite a few handheld fans out as well, especially among the Americans, who are wearing racing-style coats and long pants. It’s currently 81 degrees in Paris, where it’s almost 10 p.m. local time. The sun has just set, and the last of the light has left the sky.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:51 PM EDT

Something dubbed athlete karaoke is underway. Probably a good time for a commercial break.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:51 PM EDT

The mass of United States athletes is excitedly dancing, taking selfies, and chatting as the ceremony continues. There’s a French athlete crowd-surfing over a line of other members of Team France. Generally, the vibes are jovial.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:47 PM EDT

Former Olympic figure skaters Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir have taken over the mic from Mike Tirico and and Jimmy Fallon on the NBC broadcast. Their perspective from their experience as Olympic athletes is always insightful.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:45 PM EDT

U.S. athletes are taking the field.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:37 PM EDT

A look at Katie Ledecky and Nick Mead carrying the U.S. flag. The full U.S delegation of athletes is waiting for its turn to take the field.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:37 PM EDT

Delegations might look smaller than they did in the opening ceremony: Many athletes, especially ones that competed early in the games, can opt to head home early. Still, the Team USA crowd looks particularly big from inside the tunnel, where they wait to enter the stadium.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:33 PM EDT

This really is a celebration for the athletes, who are dancing and smiling as they take the field. Those with medals are proudly showing them off.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:25 PM EDT

Each nation sent two flag bearers in first. Now the full delegation of athletes is joining the flag bearers on the field for the party.
Sun, August 11, 2024 at 3:24 PM EDT

NBC hosts Mike Tirico and Jimmy Fallon are making awkward small talk with Ledecky and Mead in their ear pieces as they walk with the flag.