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The twenty twenty four summer olympics are over the games in paris came to an end last night with a closing ceremony
That featured music acrobats and tom crews were peelling into the stadium
Among many other elements
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What was it like at the closing ceremony
You were there in the stadium
Hewas i've got to say it was part theatrical spectacle and part rocks show i mean this was grandios as you might imagine in paris
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There was this golden character who was repeelling from the top of the stadium
There was these intricate shining light displaced tons of atroobactics
And of course a lot of fireworks
And i have to say from where i was seting with a lot of other reporters
We could see a bunch of the tusa athletes who seem to be really having a great s
They formed a pit around the french band phoenix
As they were performing some songs
I've got to tell you really just took me back to my college day
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I'm part of this closing ceremony was the hand off from paris to loss angeles
That included al marir care and bath and samoon biil standing there with the olympic flag
And then tom crereis performed arycle and scended down from on high and ended up carrying the olympicflag off on his motorcycles of that was a thing
What could be more american than tom cruws on a motorcycle and beliebe ii sh cylually okay
Let's talk about the metals le the u us in china tied for the most gold forty each and the us one the most metals overall
But that's just one way to sum up the games
But there a moment that stood out flag off a his specially ally ananful ful to personally ally so arry this is a gold metormoment
But it's one that didn't get as much attention as a lot of those that happened here at the games for teen usa earlier in the games
We inreduce ed our ycle so a his twenty one old weight fliter named olivia reeves from chat ten new at tennesy produce her erbsand acroy now
And i actually got to meet her and her coachin tentensy
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And i arn her little cobit about her story
She is a well decorated weight lift who kept just smashing records in our national competient superconsistent super strong
And i have that opportunity to be there at the south paris arena
When she clenched her gold metal victory winwinthe the ted ted states first olympic golden weight liting ting twenty six four years
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I just want to give you a sense of how strong the woman is heard total
Which is the combined weight of two lifts three snatch in the clean in jerk feelus up seventy seven potory
And she just made it looks peasy
And then she gets up on the podium
After just nailing these lifts she's cleclely ly emotional shshe 's stthere at the us and them as planning the flag as going up fea less
Nowhat olivia reeves had to say and after the metal ceremony feeling the weight of this competition is different than the others
Even though it's the same
Which get your three attempts
Three attempts you're six minutes
It's the same
But it feels different in there there's 没的just the environment
So i kind of knew they're going meet tears good or bad
Ii can't not knew what i got here and for olivia was good tears
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But i got to say i expect this will not be the last time
That we're going to be seen her standing on that podiums
I'm really excited to keep following her career
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You know one thing we kept hearing the run up to the reames
Was that organizers want anthese olympics to see oopen to the city of paris at that go
I mean it was a part of the anans from the first moments of the olympic thinking to the opening ceremony
Where we saw those delegations on both with athletes s waving to all the spectators
As they cruied down the sun river
I remember of standing they were even seeing people leading out the apartment windows just wanting to get in on the actually
And if they didn't nap tickets
And then as competition incgreresat there all of these venues were really integrated into the city of paris of the surrounding areas
Just one example
The beach of volleyball court
Just in first shadow of the iphone tower was absolutely incredible to see
If you're lucky enough to have a tickeout of the opportunity to be there at night
You could actually see the iphone tower or spreks and be be t up as it is in the evening
And then you can't forget the marathoner er as well where runnerrrace from parases house hotel developed ast some the cicities
Most iconic cites winding for the city all the way out west st verside before waning back into the city
City again want i know you are yourself of runner in between all of the report
Youyou've been doing to you get in any good paris runs often at the sacrifice of sleep
But i definitely did i mean this is just an incredibly beautiful city to run in from where we were saying i was able to run along the sun as the live the views just don't get old
I've gotta tell you i am clearly not the only person who wanted to have some of those iconic beautiful paris runs organizers
Here here introduced something that knew the if ice olyicics
It's called the marathon for all kind of a cool thing that gave more than twenty thousand people the opportunity to run the exacsame course
The marathoners did it's beautiful
But it's also a very hard healy course
And you know i have to get out there check it out
Myself talk to some of these awesome runners
And i want inreduduce to just one womwomi met her me as rose
Mary dulely she lives in new york
And she was getting ready to run her twenty of maaathon
I mean
I think it's an unbelieved of privilege
It's like a totally unique experients to get to around the exact same course
Looking at the hills
Some of them were really challenging
I've run like boston marathon
Which was a lot of halls
But this has like double the elevation
But so it's going to be really really challenging
But about walk walk
I have to
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Whatever i have to do to finish
I don't mind
And i all just quickly
Now this race started late
But paris was in an finsolute party
There was a light show
There was live music
The mascot of the games was there was the finished line giving out hoggs and high five
And i definitely set up entirely to too late myself watching all of these awesome runner
So that is our cohost won a summers rarapping up her time in paris
Covering the summer olympics
And it's been so fun
Listening to your coverage
These last couple of weeks
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