The 2024 Paris Olympics Closing Ceremony featured has been highly-entertaining, featuring incredible performances from several artists including the French band Phoenix, Yseult, as well as Angele, H.E.R and more. However, Paris also passed the torch to Los Angeles 2028 with style… Including an incredible stunt by Tom Cruise.
The 62-year-old actor jumped off the top of the Stade de France to mark the transition from the Paris Olympics to the upcoming L.A. Games in 2028. He landed on the stage during the Olympics closing ceremony, where he was greeted by the athletes.
Cruise was rumored to do a stunt for the ceremony for weeks, and his possible payment has also been rumored. However, it was still pretty impressive to watch him jump off from the roof in a very Ethan Hunt way. Here’s what he got to say after his appearance.
Tom Cruise says goodbye to Paris after spectacular stunt
In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Cruise reacted to his participation in the Closing Ceremony. “Thank you, Paris! Now off to LA,” the actor wrote, while also sharing a selfie of him from the roof of the stadium. Actually, Cruise has been seen in several Olympic competitions over the past two weeks in Paris.
After his stunt, Cruise was joined by Team USA champion Simone Biles and L.A. Mayor Karen Bass, who handed him the Olympic flag.The actor then got on a motorcycle, carrying the flag, and rode out of the stadium to symbolically deliver it to L.A. Later, he was seen hiking across the Hollywood Hills to place the Olympic rings on top of the famous sign.
He then handed it, and the Olympic flag ended up in a ceremony by the beach in L.A. in which Billie Eilish and Snoop Dogg sang their respective hits. With that, the preparation for the Olympic Games in the city of angels have officially begun.
This is not the first time that the actor appears in the Olympics ceremonies. In 2004, Cruise participated in the Olympics’, helping carry the Olympic torch through Los Angeles as it made its way around the world before resting in Athens, Greece, where the games were taking place that year.
