Paris Olympics closing ceremony – what you need to know

After more than two weeks of action-packed sport, Paris is preparing for the 2024 Olympics closing ceremony.

It will take place on Sunday, 11 August and is being held at the Stade de France, which has hosted athletics and rugby sevens during the Games.

It is scheduled to start at 20:00 BST and finish at 22:30.

For those in the UK, it will be live on BBC One, BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app.

Television coverage begins at 19:00 BST and there will be an accompanying live text.

Organisers have remained tight-lipped about who is appearing, but film star Tom Cruise is heavily rumoured to be taking part by abseiling down the stadium.

There will be a segment during which Paris hands over to the next hosts of the summer Olympics – Los Angeles in 2028 – and that could be where the Hollywood star features.

The closing ceremony will feature performers, dancers and circus artists taking part alongside famous headlining acts, both French and American.

Snoop Dogg, who has been prominent throughout the Games, is set to perform – as are French artists Air and Phoenix.

Artistic director Thomas Jolly said the show was called ‘Records’, and it promises to take the audience on a science-fiction dream-like immersive journey through time.

That will begin from the origins of the Olympic Games and will go to a dystopian future when the Olympics have disappeared and must be reinvented.

As well as the unique artistic section, the closing ceremony will also include more traditional elements, including:

Although the closing ceremony is taking place inside a stadium, unlike the rain-soaked opening ceremony along the River Seine, it is still open to the elements.

No rain is forecast for Sunday. Instead it will be extremely hot, with temperatures peaking at 33C in the French capital.