Tom Cruise to perform Mission Impossible stunt while Billie Eilish will sing at the Olympic closing ceremony as LA prepares to host the 2028 games

Billie Eilish and Tom Cruise will both take the stage at the Olympic Games closing ceremony on Sunday night.

The 62-year-old actor is expected to perform a daring Mission Impossible-style stunt at the Stade de France to mark the handover of the Olympic baton from France to LA for the 2028 Olympic Games.

The Rain Man star will be joined by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Billie Eilish who will perform in LA.

Their performances, which will be watched by millions of people, will be streamed live into the stadium.

All of the artists, including Snoop Dogg, who was a familiar face at the Games, were chosen for their connection to the famous West Coast city.

The 52-year-old rapper was a real star at this year’s Olympic Games and was spotted at several events.

This year he introduced the controversial breakdancing competition and was also spotted in costume, enjoying the dressage and basketball competitions.

To bridge the gap between the Games, which will be held in France this year, and the next host country, all participants have strong ties with LA.

22-year-old pop star Billie was born in LA and has previously spoken about how it has shaped her and her music, describing her album Happier Than Ever as a “love letter” to the city.

Snoop Dogg is originally from Long Beach and is one of the most famous and prolific rappers and producers on the West Coast. The Red Hot Chilli Peppers formed in LA in the 80s.

The locations of Sunday’s LA performances have not been announced due to security checks after three Taylor Swift concerts in Austria were cancelled due to a bomb attack.

Hollywood action filmmaker Cruise is expected to deliver a dramatic finale to the 2024 Paris Olympics, which have been hailed as a resounding success despite a rainy and chaotic start.

The Mission: Impossible star will abseil into the Stade de France stadium to retrieve the five-ring Olympic flag and take it to Los Angeles, host of the 2028 Olympic Games.

French indie band Phoenix and electronic duo Air will also perform, but cheerful house heroes Daft Punk will not be getting the party started, despite many calls across France for them to perform.

Cruise, 62, is one of many American celebrities who have flown to the French capital to watch the events.

Rapper Snoop was a near-permanent presence during the Games, and Hollywood actors Eva Mendes, Ryan Gosling, Sharon Stone and Nicole Kidman have been spotted attending the events.

Rock legend Sir Mick Jagger is also in town and has been watching the TeamGB athletes compete on the track with his partner Melanie Hamrick and their eight-year-old son Deveraux.

Triathlon gold medallist Alex Yee and trampoline jumper Bryony Page were chosen as Team GB flag bearers to lead the closing athletes’ parade into the stadium in the French capital.

During the two and a half hour ceremony there are performances by more than 100 dancers and circus artists.

In addition to the unique artistic part, the closing ceremony also includes more traditional elements, including: the parade of athletes, the thanking of the 45,000 volunteers and the medal ceremony for the women’s marathon.

French swimmer Leon Marchand, who has won five medals in the pool, including four gold, is expected to bring the crowd to its feet with applause.

Artistic director Thomas Jolly said the show is called ‘Records’ and will take the audience on a science fiction-style, immersive journey through time.

It starts at the origins of the Olympic Games and ends in a dystopian future where the Olympic Games have disappeared and need to be reinvented.

The extinguishing of the Olympic flame takes place from the Tuileries, where the cauldron has been standing for some time and has been visited by tens of thousands of fans.

The proclamation of the end of the Olympic Games will be made by the President of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach.

The Olympic flag will be handed over by Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.

Whatever happens, Paris 2024 organizers are desperate to avoid a repeat of the controversy that erupted after the opening ceremony, which featured drag queens in a scene that some Christians and conservatives said mocked the biblical story of the Last Supper.

However, there is no fear that the downpour that disrupted many performances during the elaborate opening ceremony will occur again tonight.

And further acts of sabotage that would devastate the French rail network and leave tens of thousands of people stranded are not expected, following large-scale security checks in the capital.

The opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games will take place on August 15, with the closing event on August 27.

The Los Angeles Olympics Opening Ceremony will take place on July 14, 2028, with the Closing Ceremony just over two weeks later on July 30. It will be the third time that LA has hosted the world’s largest sporting event.

The US megacity – home to some 7.8 million cars – has pledged to make the 2028 Olympics virtually car-free.

New sports being played include T20 cricket, lacrosse, baseball, squash and flag football (also known as non-contact gridiron).

Surfing, skateboarding and sport climbing, big hits at the French Games, will survive.

But breakdancing, which was first practiced in Paris 2024 and was widely ridiculed, will not be there.

Earlier this afternoon tThe Eiffel Tower was evacuated after a man was seen climbing the iconic Parisian landmark hours before the closing ceremony was due to begin.

The shirtless man was seen climbing the 330-meter-high mountain. He was spotted just above the Olympic rings that adorn the second part of the monument, just above the first viewing platform.

More than 30,000 police officers have been deployed in Paris and beyond to monitor the final Olympic events and Sunday’s closing ceremony.

This comes as security authorities have been put on high alert after Austrian authorities managed to thwart a terrorist attack planned during the pop star’s series of performances in Vienna for her Eras Tour.

Los Angeles has also taken steps to counter potential threats from air, land and sea as the California city prepares to face the eyes of the world.

Organizers hope the closing ceremony will go more smoothly than the opening ceremony, which was criticized by Christians for ridiculing their faith.

The showpiece was criticized for its banquet scene, in which an actor playing the Greek god Dionysus stood center stage at a table of transvestites. The scene was interpreted as a resemblance to Leonardo da Vinci’s painting The Last Supper.

Some religious groups condemned the ceremony, including the Catholic Church in France, which said it contained “scenes of mockery and ridicule of Christianity.”