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STORY: The sun set on the Olympic Games in Paris on Sunday.

The closing ceremony included performances by Billie Eilish, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Snoop Dogg, all music icons from California, in a nod to the next Summer Games host city of Los Angeles.

Hollywood was also represented with Tom Cruise performing a stunt worthy of Mission Impossible.

LA Mayor Karen Bass became the first Black woman mayor to receive the Olympic flag. She acknowledged Paris had set the bar high but expressed confidence that her city would prove itself a worthy successor.

Thousands of Olympic fans celebrated outside the Stade de France before the 2-1/2 hour show.

It also featured an insect-like "Golden Voyager" who passed through a dystopian future where the Olympics have vanished and must be rediscovered.

The finale concludes two weeks of sporting drama that saw the United States and China duke it out for the top spot in the medal table right down to the last event.

The American women's basketball team on Sunday handed France a gut-wrenching one-point defeat to earn a 40th gold medal, tying China's total.

But the United States finished with the highest medal count overall, topping China by more than 30 silver and bronze medals.