The spectacular Olympic Games in Paris end with a big closing show. That’s what the international media is writing.
Paris (dpa) –
France
Le Figaro: “Even if the show was not as grand as the opening ceremony – but it was difficult to fight against the Seine – some spectacular visual scenes will remain in the memory.”
Great Britain
Mirror: “Tom Cruise performed a stunning jump from the stadium roof as the Olympics staged a crowd-pleaser for the finale.”
Spain
El Pais: “Paris lights the way for Los Angeles. Goodbye to Paris 2024, the Games of Light after the cold, the pandemic silence of Tokyo. Reconciliation with the passion of sport, the festivities of a city packed with halls and stadiums. From Saint-Denis to Roland Garros, from La Défense to Le Bourget via the Place de la Concorde.”
Austria
Kronen Zeitung: “While the 2021 Summer Games in Tokyo and the 2022 Winter Games were still under the influence of the corona pandemic, the return of a real sporting festival was celebrated in Paris. This was also taken into account at the closing ceremony. (…) At the end there was a foretaste of the 2028 Games in Hollywood: lots of star power. R&B star HER performed the US national anthem, film hero Tom Cruise abseiled from the stadium facade and took the flag from Biles’ hand to bring it out of the stadium.”
Switzerland
Blick: “The organizers of the next Olympic Games in Milano Cortina (2026) and Los Angeles (2028) will have to stretch to at least catch up. But even the best organization is nothing without the enthusiasm of the people. After the sobering emptiness at the Corona Games in Tokyo three years ago, people longed for big emotions. No matter which stadiums you visited, they were almost always full.”
USA
New York Times: “The celebration that closed the Games — with acrobats, a Tom Cruise performance and a carpet of fireworks — was not as bold as the boat parade on the Seine that opened the Games 17 days earlier, but it was still a fitting finale to a night that elevated sport and style and theater to high art.”
Los Angeles Times: “No other city in the world can do what Paris has done over the past three weeks, presenting the drama of Olympic competition against the backdrop of a glittering Eiffel Tower and the magnificent gardens of Versailles. The 2024 Olympic Games, with their classical trappings and sheer endless visual beauty, have raised an important question: How can Los Angeles possibly top that?”
Source: Stern
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