The Paris 2024 Olympic Games has brought two weeks of entertaining sports action across a wide range of events, and that is set to finish on Sunday, August 11.

That's when the closing ceremony will take place, capping off the games with a display of artistic and musical flourishes.

Unlike the opening ceremony, which took place on the River Seine, the closing ceremony will have a more traditional setting in the Stade de France.

The stadium hosted a few events during the Olympic Hames including the athletics and the Rugby 7s.

How to watch the Olympics closing ceremony in the UK?

Viewers in the UK can watch the closing ceremony on BBC One and BBC iPlayer from 7pm (8pm French time) on Sunday.

The ceremony is expected to last a few hours, concluding at around 10.15pm UK time.

What will happen at the Olympics closing ceremony?

Thomas Jolly, the artistic director of the Paris 2024 Olympic ceremonies, has titled the ceremony “Records”, with initial details stating that more than 100 performers will take part in the final spectacle, The Telegraph reports.

Musical performances, an original soundtrack and acrobats will all be a feature to take spectators on “a journey through time, both past and future”. 

A number of regular Olympic closing ceremony traditions will also be part of the evening.

This includes the extinguishing of the Olympic flame, the handover of the Olympic flag to the Los Angeles 2028 Organising Committee, and the athletes’ parade.

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There are also rumours that film star Tom Cruise is set to play a part in the closing ceremony to symbolically hand off the games to Los Angeles 2028.

TMZ first reported that Cruise’s plan involves “rappelling down the top of Stade de France” before landing on the stadium and carrying an Olympic flag.

The live broadcast will reportedly cut to prerecorded footage of the Hollywood star zipping through the streets of Paris on a motorbike, then onto a plane bound for California.