The Paris 2024 Summer Olympics will be remembered for a lot of things: drag performances, shameful allegations against some female athletes, swimming in the Seine, and, of course, incredible sporting achievements. On Sunday, the Games will add another memory to that list when Billie Eilish, Snoop Dogg, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers perform at the event’s Closing Ceremony in Los Angeles, officially handing off the Olympics from Paris to the 2028 host city.
The 2024 Summer Olympics Closing Ceremony is scheduled to begin Sunday, August 11, at 3 pm EDT. It will begin at Stade de France, north of Paris, run for just over two hours, and feature live and pretaped performances. For fans in the US, the events will be viewable on NBC (the Games’ sole distributor in the States) and Peacock, which have really been nailing this whole Olympics-watching thing this year. You can also stream the event on NBCOlympics.com.
The Closing Ceremony festivities will take place despite a state of alert around live music events following a foiled terrorist attack targeting the Vienna leg of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour this week. According to a report in Variety, crowd control and security were a concern for local officials even before news of the planned attack in Austria broke. Variety withheld the location of the performances because of those fears.
In addition to Southern California heroes Eilish, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Snoop (also an internet hero during the Paris Games), there are rumors that Tom Cruise will perform a stunt to transition the Olympics from their 2024 home to LA.
The 2028 Summer Olympics will take place from July 14 to July 30 in Los Angeles.
