4-time Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky and two-time Olympic rower Nick Mead have been named as Staff USA flag bearers on the closing ceremony of the 2024 Olympics on Sunday.
The announcement by the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) comes amid rising pleasure around Sunday’s ceremony, which can see town of Paris handover the summer time video games baton to L.A. which would be the host metropolis in 2028.
A raft of Hollywood stars is predicted to take part on this section of the ceremony, led by Tom Cruise, who’s believed to pre-recorded materials in Paris this spring and can also be rumored to be preparing a skydiving stunt into the Stade de France venue.
The flag bearing honor for Ledecky follows a stellar efficiency in Paris the place she gained 4 medals to grow to be probably the most embellished U.S. ladies’s Olympian of all time and the fifth most embellished Olympian in historical past with 14 medals.
Her win within the 800-meter freestyle in Paris, additionally made her the seventh Olympian to win 4 consecutive gold medals in the identical occasion — and solely the second swimmer to take action after Michael Phelps.
Hypothesis is now mounting over whether or not the swimming champion will return to Staff USA for the L.A. 2028 video games.
“I’m extremely honored to signify Staff USA as a flag bearer as we shut our time in Paris collectively,” stated Ledecky within the USOPC launch.
Ledecky and Mead had been chosen by a vote of all of the Staff USA athletes via a course of led by the Staff USA Athletes’ Fee, which serves because the consultant group and voice of Staff USA Athletes.
Mead was a part of the crew that secured the gold medal in males’s 4 rowing, which marked the primary for Staff USA within the occasion because the 1960 Olympic Video games in Rome.
“My expertise on the Paris Video games has been the dream of a lifetime and I’m stuffed with immense delight, gratitude and pleasure. I additionally want to thank town of Paris, and the whole nation of France, for internet hosting an unimaginable Video games. I’ll cherish these reminiscences eternally,” stated Mead.
The Closing Ceremony will start at 9 p.m. in Paris (3 p.m. ET) and will probably be offered reside on NBC and Peacock and in primetime starting at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
