Was there sailing in the 2024 Olympics?
Sailing competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics were held from July 28th to August 8th at Marseille Marina. The number of sailors competing across ten different events at these Games has been reduced from 350 to 330, with an equal distribution between men and women. Sailing and the Olympics Sailing was first contested as an Olympic sport at the 1900 Paris Games after poor weather forced the cancellation of scheduled races at the inaugural Athens 1896 Games. It has appeared at every Games since with the exception of 1904.
Was Tom Cruise at the Paris Olympics?
Tom Cruise is no stranger to big Hollywood paydays, but his latest role came free of charge. The actor stole the show during the closing ceremonies of the Paris Olympics, performing a stunt during the symbolic handoff to host-city-in-waiting Los Angeles. Tom Cruise’s stunt during the Closing Ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics was anything but ordinary. The renowned actor took on a high-risk, breathtaking performance to deliver the Olympic flag to Los Angeles, and remarkably, he did it all without a paycheck.According to Casey Wasserman, chairman of the LA2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Cruise was all for his jump from the Stade du France to accept the official Olympic flag from Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Olympian Simone Biles.Kate Courtney Courtney, who began the Olympic flags’ L. A. Tom Cruise successfully transported the flag from Paris to the Hollywood sign in a sequence that only Hollywood could produce.According to Casey Wasserman, chairman of the LA2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Cruise was all for his jump from the Stade du France to accept the official Olympic flag from Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Olympian Simone Biles.