12 Aug 2024

Europe correspondent Seamus Kearney

From Nine To Noon, 9:50 am on 12 August 2024
Stade de France  on day fourteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 on August 09, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Andrzej Iwanczuk/NurPhoto) (Photo by ANDRZEJ IWANCZUK / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP)

Photo: AFP

More than 70,000 people have packed into the main sports stadium in Paris for the Olympics closing ceremony.

Seamus says the Games' organisers are breathing sighs of relief that there were no major security issues, especially at a time of conflict in Ukraine and in the Middle East.

Meanwhile there's been a surprise attack by thousands of Ukrainian troops in Russia's Kursk region.