Crimson Sizzling Chili Peppers, Billie Eilish, Snoop Dogg carry out at 2024 Olympics Closing Ceremony

If there’s one factor Los Angeles has loads of, it is star energy.

And to amp you up for the 2028 Olympic Video games on this planet’s most congested metropolis, L.A. introduced out a few of its greatest hometown artists to commemorate the top of the ’24 Video games in Paris and the countdown to LA28.

H.E.R. sang the nationwide anthem on the Stade de France earlier than Tom Cruise dove in from the roof, actually, and kicked off the Olympic flag’s (pre-recorded) journey to its new dwelling in L.A. Cruise handed off the flag to a sequence of Olympians who introduced it to Venice Seashore the place the Crimson Sizzling Chili Peppers had been reside onstage performing “Cannot Cease,” from their 2002 album By the Approach.

Billie Eilish, hanging out on a lifeguard tower, then took over, performing “Birds of a Feather” from her newest album Hit Me Onerous and Mushy. Snoop Dogg should have simply left Paris having charmed the complete metropolis, if not the world, along with his Olympic shenanigans, and returned dwelling to L.A. to do what he does greatest: appeal the hell out of a microphone.

The Doggfather of Rap carried out the 2004 basic “Drop It Like It is Sizzling” then introduced out Dr. Dre for the 2000 basic “The Subsequent Episode.”

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“That is the largest second in LA28 historical past thus far, because the Olympic flag passes from Paris to LA,” LA28 Chairperson and President Casey Wasserman mentioned in an announcement. “We’re thrilled to characteristic the easiest of LA with native artists and are grateful to Billie, H.E.R., the Chili Peppers, and Snoop for his or her collaboration on what will probably be an unbelievable present to a world viewers that can give followers a style of what’s to return in 2028.”  

“The countdown to LA28 begins with the Paris Closing Ceremony,” added Molly Solomon, Govt Producer, and President, NBC Olympics Programming. “As we conclude one of the vital spectacular Video games ever, Paris will hand over the Olympic flag to Los Angeles, who will get issues began with a powerhouse lineup of musical superstars that can rock the world.”

Nicely, the Olympics could also be over, however because the saying goes, we’ll all the time have Snoop touring the Louvre in Paris