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Tom Cruise Skydive Part of Olympics Closing Ceremony

Jump Filmed in March to Hand Off Flag for 2028 Games

Tom Cruise will play a principal role in the closing ceremony at the Paris Olympic Games on August 11, 2024.

He will reportedly carry the official Olympic flag from Paris in a symbolic handoff to Los Angeles, host city for the 2028 Summer Olympiad. In Los Angeles he will skydive to the iconic Hollywood sign, prominently mounted in the Santa Monica mountains above the city.

Fulwell 73, the London-based production company, is creating the Los Angeles segment of the ceremony, which consists of live and prerecorded elements. The live initial segment will show Cruise rappelling from the top of the Stade de France and landing on the stadium field with the Olympic flag. Then the prerecorded piece shows a short clip of Cruise’s flight from Paris to Los Angeles, and skydiving to the Hollywood sign. On the ground, Cruise passes the flag to other Olympic athletes who are shown making their way around LA.

Previous Olympic openings as well as closings and handoffs have featured celebrity spectacles so this is not unusual. Numerous Hollywood actors and producers, professional athletes, and well-known musicians have been involved with or played active roles in the ceremonies, which have emerged as cultural phenomena in their own right.

FMI: www.olympics.com/ioc/paris-2024

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