For the first time ever, the Closing Ceremony featured "live celebrations from the next host city" as the people of Paris and France "embraced their role as host" of the '24 Paris Games. With an eight-minute display, Paris got "a chance to preview the next Summer Olympics with an artistic segment." It gave a "spectacular glimpse of what’s to come" at the Paris Games. The segment ended at the Eiffel Tower, and France’s elite air display team, the Patrouille de France, flew overhead, framing the tower while France President Emmanuel Macron delivered the Olympic motto: “Faster, Higher, Stronger -- Together." Plans to "raise the world’s biggest flag on Paris’ most famous attraction," the Eiffel Tower, to end the presentation were "dashed due to bad weather" (NBCSPORTS.com, 8/8).
