00:00The sun set on the Olympic Games in Paris on Sunday. The closing ceremony included performances
00:07by Billie Eilish, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Snoop Dogg, all music icons from California
00:13in a nod to the next Summer Games host city of Los Angeles. Hollywood was also represented
00:19with Tom Cruise performing a stunt worthy of Mission Impossible. L.A. Mayor Karen Bass
00:25became the first black woman mayor to receive the Olympic flag. She acknowledged Paris
00:30had set the bar high, but expressed confidence that her city would prove itself a worthy
00:35successor. Thousands of Olympic fans celebrated outside the Stade de France before the two-and-a-half
00:43hour show. It also featured an insect-like golden voyager who passed through a dystopian
00:49future where the Olympics have vanished and must be rediscovered. The finale concludes
01:04two weeks of sporting drama that saw the United States and China duke it out for the top spot
01:09in the medal table, right down to the last event. The American women's basketball team
01:14on Sunday handed France a gut-wrenching one-point defeat to earn a 40th gold medal, tying China's
01:21total. But the United States finished with the highest medal count overall, topping China
01:26by more than 30 silver and bronze medals.
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