Watch: Best moments from the Paris Olympic closing ceremony

Team USA's flag bearers enter Stade de France:  Swimming champion Katie Ledecky and rowing gold medalist Nick Mead had the honor of marching into the Olympic stadium with the American flag. 

Upon entering, NBC hosts Mike Tirico and Jimmy Fallon conducted a brief interview with the athletes despite the deafening noise.

Female marathoners receive their medals: The Olympics traditionally end with the men's marathon runners receiving their medals at the closing ceremonies. The 2024 Games broke that tradition, instead opting to hold the women's event on the final day and honoring the medalists at the ceremony. 

The marathon route followed the same path as the women's march on Versailles during the French Revolution in 1789.

Paris "hands off" the Olympics to Los Angeles ft. Tom Cruise: A traditional show of diplomacy, the mayor of Paris handed the mayor of Los Angeles the Olympic flag — a symbol of the 2024 Games closing and the start of the 34th Olympiad to be completed in 2028. 

H.E.R. performed a rendition of the American national anthem while actor Tom Cruise — in typical Hollywood fashion — dropped in from the top of the stadium to take the Olympic flag (on a motorcycle to a plane and then skydiving) to Los Angeles in an epic montage. 

It was all capped off with a concert by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Billie Eilish and Snoop Dogg on Santa Monica beach.

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach, Marchand and other athletes officially closed the Paris Games by blowing out the Olympic flame on stage.

But fans can still look forward to the Paralympic Games which begin Aug. 28, also in Paris.