Anika Begay
The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris will be remembered for many things: drag performances, outrageous accusations against 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 the Olympics over from Paris to the 2028 host city.
The closing ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics is scheduled to begin Sunday, August 11, 3:00 PM EDT. It will kick off at the Stade de France, north of Paris, last just over two hours, and feature live and pre-recorded performances. For fans in the United States, the events will be available on NBC (the sole distributor of the Games in the United States) and Peacock, who have really nailed the Olympics viewing thing this year. You can also stream the event at NBCOlympics.com.
The closing ceremony festivities will take place despite a state of alert for live music events following a foiled terrorist attack that targeted 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 authorities even before news of the planned attack in Austria broke. Variety is omitting the location of the performances due to those concerns.
In addition to Southern California heroes Eilish, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Snoop (also an internet hero during the Paris Games), Tom Cruise is rumored to be performing a stunt to move the Olympics from their 2024 home in Los Angeles.
The 2028 Summer Olympics will take place from July 14 to 30 in Los Angeles.
