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2024 Paris Olympics closing ceremony: Summer Games come to a close following Team GB claiming 14 gold medals, 65 in total with Billie Eilish and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers set to feature

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By Robert Summerscales

Published: 18:04 BST, 11 August 2024 | Updated: 18:53 BST, 11 August 2024

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Final medal table

As previously mentioned, the USA finished first, with Team GB seventh.

Click below to see the table in full.

How did Team GB do?

Great Britain ended the Games with 14 golds, 22 silvers and 29 bronzes.

Only the USA (129) and China (91) won more medals than Team GB (65).

However, Britain ended seventh in the medal table because Japan, Australia, France and the Netherlands all won more golds.

Great Britain finished fourth at Tokyo three years ago with 22 golds, 20 silvers and 22 bronzes (64 overall).

 Bronze medallists Zharnel Hughes, Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, Louie Hinchliffe and Jeremiah Azu of team Great Britain celebrate after the men's 4x100m relay final of the athletics event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on August 9, 2024. (Photo by Mustafa Yalcin/Anadolu via Getty Images)

 Bronze medalists Alex Yee, Georgia Taylor-Brown, Beth Potter and Samuel Dickinson of Team Great Britain celebrate with the Team Great Britain flag following the Triathlon medal ceremony after the Mixed Relay on Day Ten of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Pont Alexandre III on August 05, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)

 Keely Hodgkinson of Great Britain wins gold medal in the women's 800m final at the Stade de France during the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France on August 05, 2024. (Photo by Mustafa Ciftci/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Who won Paris 2024?

Earlier this summer, multiple American television channels were mocked for claiming that Team USA were top of the medal table.

China were leading at that point based on the official table, which ranks nations based primarily on how many golds they have won.

But the USA had won more medals overall.

Well, the USA ended the Games with 40 golds - double the tally of any other nation other than China.

China also won 40 golds, but were 35 behind the Americans overall.

So yeah, Team USA win

 Kevin Durant of Team USA cheers with the national flag after winning during the Men's Gold Medal Game on day fifteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Bercy Arena on August 10, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Amin Mohammad Jamali/Getty Images)

the Olympics!

How has day 16 gone so far?

The final day of competition at the 2024 Olympic Games began early with the women's marathon, which was won by Sifan Hassan in an Olympic record time of 2:22:55.

Then came the finales of the handball, water polo, wrestling, weightlifting, pentathlon and track cycling events.

The final sporting competition of the Games was the women's basketball gold medal match between France and the USA, with the Americans winning 67-66

  Kelsey Plum #5 of the USA Women's National Team Chelsea Gray #8 of the USA Women's National Team Jackie Young #13 of the USA Women's National Team and A'ja Wilson #9 of the USA Women's National Team poses for a photo  during the Women's Gold Medal game at the  AccorHotels Arena on August 11, 2024 in Lille, France. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2024 NBAE (Photo by Garrett W. Ellwood/NBAE via Getty Images)

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Well then...

That was the 2024 Olympic Games.

All of the events have finished and all of the medals dished out. Now all that remains is tonight's closing ceremony, which is due to begin at 8pm (UK time).

Stick with Mail Sport to follow the action live as the show concludes at the Stade de France.

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