Hollywood will help script a glittering ending to the Paris Olympics on Sunday with 14 gold medals to be decided before the French capital hands over the reins to 2028 hosts Los Angeles.
Tom Cruise, who is currently filming the latest episode of the "Mission Impossible" franchise in Europe, is expected to play a starring role at the closing ceremony this Sunday evening.
He is reportedly set to perform a spectacular stunt sequence to mark the passing of the Games from Paris to Los Angeles which will involve the handing of the Olympic flag from one city to the other.
Cruise has been a regular feature at Olympic events in Paris.
On Saturday, he watched the United States women's team win a fifth football gold medal.
Also confirmed on the cast list are California A-list acts Billie Eilish and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, performing from Los Angeles.
The closing ceremony at the Stade de France will be directed by Thomas Jolly, the mastermind of the spectacular opening ceremony which took place on the River Seine.
"On August 11, the Olympic Games will be over, and the Olympic flame will be extinguished," said Jolly.
"That moment will remind us just how precious are these Olympic Games."
Before the curtain comes down, the women's marathon completed the 11-day athletics programme.
Sifan Hassan, the Ethiopian-born Dutch runner – who has already pocketed bronze medals in the 5,000m and 10,000m – won gold in the race, which went through Paris to Versailles before finishing at Invalides in the heart of the French capital.
'Kind of hell'
"I've done in my life, the 800m, the 1500m, 10,000m, everything. But endurance on Sunday, that's not a joke," said Hassan.
"To finish the marathon is a kind of hell. It's not easy".
The all-conquering US women's basketball team won an historic eighth straight gold, beating the French team by one point in a nail-biting finish, 67-66.
The US women have won basketball gold at the past seven Olympic Games, starting at Atlanta in 1996.
This eighth straight triumph gives them the record for most consecutive golds in any team sport at the Olympic Games – breaking a tie with the US men, who won seven basketball titles in a row from 1936 to 1968.
"I think the gold medal is the standard," US forward Alyssa Thomas said. "No matter where we are in the world, it's our goal and that's what we came here for".
The final competitions
China's Li Wenwen eased to victory in the women's heavyweight class this Sunday to give her nation a fifth gold in the Olympic weightlifting competition in Paris – hoisting her coach in the air to celebrate.
In the men's handball final, Denmark beat Germany 39 to 26.
The Germans were in their first gold medal match for 20 years, while the Danes were champions at Rio in 2016 but runners-up to France in Tokyo three years ago.
