Watch Billie Eilish, Red Hot Chili Peppers, & Snoop Dogg Play Olympics LA28 Handover Celebration

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The 2024 Olympics Closing Ceremony went down today in Paris with some special performances from France’s Air, Phoenix, Kavinsky, and others. Also, in a much-hyped handoff to Los Angeles, which will host the next Summer Olympics in 2028, local musicians Billie Eilish, Snoop Dogg, H.E.R., and the Red Hot Chili Peppers all performed for the LA28 Handover Celebration.

H.E.R. performed the US National Anthem and Tom Cruise staged a Mission Impossible-style stunt, soundtracked by Red Hot Chili Peppers, to escort the Olympic flag from Paris to Los Angeles.

A series of pre-taped performances at Rosie’s Dog Beach in Long Beach began with the Chili Peppers (whose self-titled debut album turned 40 yesterday) doing “Can’t Stop.” (Who knew they were from California?) Eilish and her brother Finneas did a full-band version of “BIRDS OF A FEATHER,” the hit from Hit Me Hard and Soft. And Olympic badminton expert and Martha Stewart lunch date Snoop Dogg performed “Drop It Like It’s Hot” and, with Dr. Dre, “The Next Episode.”

At the Paris games, USA and China finished with 40 Gold medals each (USA earned 126 total medals, while China won 91). Unfortunately, breaking won’t be at LA28, though that was decided before Paris kicked off. Also Flavor Flav got his own Olympic Funko.

Watch clips from the LA28 Handover Celebration below.

“There is a reason everyone is fascinated with everything LA.” – Anthony Kiedis

It wouldn’t be LA without the @ChiliPeppers. #LA28 is excited to have collaborated with the Red Hot Chili Peppers to drop an LA28 ‘A’ emblem that is an ode to the dynamic culture of the city and the… pic.twitter.com/gcTKJnGECL

— LA28 (@LA28) August 10, 2024

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