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By Catherine Porter
Report from Saint-Denis, France
There were French firefighters jumping like acrobats, a musician with a piano suspended vertically in the air, and Olympic athletes invading the level and forming a mosh pit around the French electro-pop band Phoenix.
The Paris Olympics ended as they began, with a raucous display in front of a joyous crowd, a generous contribution of strobe lights, smoke and fireworks. And then actor Tom Cruise rappelled from the stadium roof to retrieve gymnast Simone Biles’ Olympic suit. Bandera and take it on her motorcycle, “Top Gun” and “Mission: Impossible” to Los Angeles, where the next Summer Olympics will be held. She is expected to take office in 2028.
“Together we have experienced the Games as we have never experienced them before,” said Tony Estanguet, president of the Paris Olympic organizing committee, adding that among all the records broken, including that of marriage proposals. “Overnight, time stopped and the whole country had goosebumps. »
As Paris ushers in the Olympic Games, many are reluctant to let its magic pass us by: of the adrenaline-fueled excitement, of the party freed from political debate, of the sensation of time delightfully suspended, like the sparkling Olympic cauldron that The melancholy floated over the city each and every night.
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