2024 Summer Paralympics closing ceremony

"Paris 2024 closing ceremony" redirects here. For the Olympics closing ceremony, see 2024 Summer Olympics closing ceremony.

2024 Summer Paralympics
closing ceremony

Part of 2024 Summer Paralympics
Date	8 September 2024 (2024-09-08)
Time	20:30 – 23:00 CEST (UTC+2)
Venue	Stade de France
Location	Saint-Denis, France
Also known as	Paris est une Fête
Filmed by	Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS)
Footage	The ceremony on the IPC YouTube channel on YouTube

The closing ceremony of the 2024 Summer Paralympics took place at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France on 8 September 2024. Most of the ceremony took place in the rain. A total of twenty-three other DJs performed, including Étienne de Crécy, Cassius, DJ Falcon and Alan Braxe. Anderson .Paak performed in the 2028 Summer Paralympics handover ceremony, situated at Venice, Los Angeles.

Officials

The closing ceremony of the 2024 Summer Paralympics took place at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France on 8 September 2024. There were 169 delegations with 5,800 athletes and accompanying staff and 64,000 spectators. Most of the ceremony took place in pouring rain, which drenched the performers and athletes, although the criowd remained dry.

Dignitaries present included the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, the president of Paris 2024, Tony Estanguet, and International Paralympic Committee president Andrew Parsons, who closed the games.

The cauldron's last flight

French singer Santa opened the festivities

French singer Santa opened the festivities, performing Vivre pour le Meilleur by Johnny Halliday. The performance was accompanied by video sequences of images from the closing ceremonies of the three previous Games. French producer Victor le Masne's Parade, the anthem of the Paris 2024 Games, was sounded to launch a celebration of the athletes who participated in the games.

La Marseillaise, the National Anthem of France since 1795, was played by André Feydy, a trumpeter with a disability, and the French flag was raised by military personnel. The flags of the 169 participating nations were paraded, accompanied by music from the French Republican Guard Band, who played popular tunes such as Les Champs-Élysées and Gloria Gaynor’s I Will Survive. Video was shown of highlights of the games.

Tributes

Paralympic flag is lowered

Speeches were given by Tony Estanguet and Andrew Parsons. The six newly-elected members of the International Paralympic Committee Athletes' Council were introduced: Lenine Cunha from Portugal, the first athlete with an intellectual disability to join the Council; Vladyslava Kravchenko a swimmer from Malta; Martina Caironi, an athlete from Italy; Yoomin Won, a wheelchair basketball player from Korea; Tan Yujiao, a powerlifter from China; and Denise Schindler, a cyclist from Germany.

Two thousand of the volunteers who had supported the games paraded while the band played Johnny Hallyday's Que je t'aime. Eight break dancers, some with disabilities, performed, a nod to the introduction of breaking to the Olympic Program. French DJ Cut Killer supplyied the music, with mixes that included Jacques Dutronc's Les Cactus, Suprême NTM's Seine-Saint-Denis Style and Manu Dibango's Soul Makossa.

The Paralympic flag was lowered while the band played the Paralympic Anthem. The Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, handed the flag back to the President of the International Paralympic Committee, Andrew Parsons, who, in turn, handed it over to the Mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass. The national anthem of the United States of America was then sung by Ali Stroker.

California Dreamin by The Mamas and The Papas was played, and there was a video featuring four Los Angeles-based Paralympians: Lauren Ridloff, Samantha Bosco, Ezra Frech and Jamal Hill. The action shifted to the Venice Beach Skatepark in Los Angeles, where adaptive athletes including Oscar Loreto Jr., Kanya Sesser and Aaron “Wheelz” Fotheringham put on a skateboarding display. Music was provided by jazz pianist Matthew Whitaker, violinist and Broadway composer Gaelynn Lea, rapper, songwriter and athlete Garnet Silver-Hall, and Anderson .Paak.

At the Jardin des Tuileries, blind musical duo Amadou and Mariam, accompanied by a string quartet, performed Serge Gainsbourg's Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais while the flames below the Paralympics cauldron. Meanwhile, ix French Paralympic athletes medallists brought the Paralympic flame into the Stade de France: swimmer Ugo Didier and blind footballer Frédéric Villeroux, the first and last French gold medallists of the games; Charles Noakes, a gold medallist in badminton; Gloria Agblemagnon, a silver medallist in athletics; Aurélie Aubert France's first Paralympic Boccia champion and one of its Closing Ceremony flag bearers; and cyclist Mathieu Bosredon France's most successful athlete at the games, who won three gold medals in cycling. Aubert and Bosredon blew out the flame.

Journey of the wave

Closing ceremony electronic music

Closing ceremony electronic music

Closing ceremony electronic music

With the formalities over, French composer Jean-Michel Jarre, the father of electronic music in France, assembled twenty-three other DJs to turn the Stade de France into a discotheque to bring the ceremony to a loud finale:

1. Jean-Michel Jarre : Les Mots bleus, Medley
2. Breakbot : Baby I'm Yours
3. Nathalie Duchene : Praia
4. Alan Braxe : Intro
5. DJ Falcon avec Panda Bear : Step by Step
6. Étienne de Crécy : Am I Wrong
7. Cassius : Cassius 1999
8. Kavinsky : Roadgame
9. Busy P : We Are Your Friends x Signatune x I Love U So
10. Boston Bun : Missing You
11. Tatyana Jane : Psaume 92
12. Kiddy Smile : Make Love
13. GЯEG : Dembow Tronico
14. Chloé Caillet : Costa
15. Agoria : Scala
16. Irène Drésel : Vestale
17. Chloé : Mars 500
18. Kittin : Forever Ravers
19. Anetha : Whistleblower
20. Polo & Pan : Nanã
21. Ofenbach : Be Mine
22. The Avener : Fade Out Lines
23. Kungs : Mix (Never Going Home, Clap Your Hands, This Girl)
24. Victor Le Masne : Higher
25. Jean-Michel Jarre : Final
26. Martin Solveig : Mix (Madan, Hello)