OJ 2024: More than 13 million tickets for Olympic and Paralympic Games

The organizers of Paris 2024 presented their ticketing device, Monday, in the board of directors. They promise one million tickets to 24 euros for the Olympic events and 500,000 tickets to 15 euros for the Paralympics.

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The members of Paris 2024 adopted, in the board of directors, Monday, March 21, the main lines of the organization of the ticketing which will be implemented during the Olympic Games (OJ) and Paralympic Paris 2024, in A little over two years. The sum of nearly € 1.2 billion of revenues is expected for the sale of tickets to attend competitions, or 30% of the budget of the Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (COJOP).

In detail, some 13.4 million tickets will be offered for sale – 10 million for the Olympic Games (from July 26 to August 11, 2024) and 3.4 million for the Paralympics (from August 28 to September 8) . Tickets giving access to opening and closing ceremonies will be subject to a specific sale. As a comparison, a football world cup attracts an average of 3.4 million spectators; A global rugby, 2.5 million.

Half of the tickets – which will be entirely dematerialized for security reasons – will be offered to the general public at the price of 50 euros or less (25 euros or less for the Paralympic edition), including one million to 24 euros (500 000 tickets to 15 euros for the Paralympics), entry price Whatever the Olympic sport, argue the organizers. In London in 2012, the entrance price to competitions was 27 euros.

So it will be, for example, theoretically possible to assist for 24 euros to a match of the French basketballses or the Dream Team American at the exhibition center – A room that little the blues

OPENING sales in February 2023

As for the allocation of valuable sesames, the Paris 2024 teams have opted for a purchase slot system, a new procedure, which they consider as “the fairest”.

In previous game editions, buyers all connected at the same time when opening the online ticketing, most often causing a congestion of the reservation platform; For Paris 2024, the draw will attribute to the happy elected officials, which will be enrolled in advance on the ticket office by the end of 2022, of the niches of several hours to buy ticket packs – at a limited number, which remains to be determined.

In concrete terms, it will be possible “to buy in real time the tickets that will be available at the moment t, promises on the side of Paris 2024. Opening of sales in February 2023, according to the COJOP calendar.

People recalled will have the opportunity to catch up when drawing the tickets in unity (May 2023), or even, if the fate is caught, when putting on sale at the end of 2023, Remaining Notes. The ticket office Paralympic games will be launched according to the same procedure in the fall of the same year.

The organizers of the Olympics of Paris specify that 80% of the tickets will be offered for the general public – 20% to the partners and stakeholders of the games, in hospitals (VIP, Loges, customized offers), etc. To avoid the black market, it will also be possible to redeem tickets on a specific platform.

The ticketing offer of the Paris Olympic Games, however, does not take into account a degraded health context. “We want full stadiums, and spectators from all walks of life to live unique emotions and forge the memories of a life,” enthuses Tony Estanguet, the President of Paris 2024.

Two years after the beginning of the CVIV-19 crisis, however difficult to exclude the scenario of a pandemic that would force the organizers to rethink their offer.

In the meantime, they do not consider gauges at 25% or 50%, as at the euro football in 2021. And let us even emit the hypothesis of a closed session, as during the Olympics Tokyo, in the summer of 2021, or Beijing, last February.

/Media reports.