It will be possible until January 31 to register for the draw which will allocate tickets to attend the Paris Olympic Games.
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Lhe Paris 2024 Organizing Committee presented on Monday, November 28 in front of the Eiffel Tower the system chosen to distribute tickets for the 2024 Olympic Games. The procedure will officially open on Thursday 1er December: “This is an important moment, which makes the Olympic Games concrete”, declared Paris 2024. Candidates for a place in the Olympic stands will thus be able from 1er December register for a big draw whose heavy task will be to allocate the precious tickets.
Beyond this important step, ticketing is indeed a major challenge with nearly 1.2 billion euros in expected revenue, nearly a third of the budget of the Organizing Committee (Cojo). This overall amount is also likely to be revised upwards, as the organizers recently announced, without being able to quantify it precisely.
“Not a sprint”
Specifically, from 1er December at 11 a.m., people wishing to buy tickets will have two months (until January 31, 2023) to register for the draw on a single site: tickets.paris2024.org. “It’s not a speed race”, explained the general manager of Paris-2024 Étienne Thobois on Monday.
Once registered, you will have to “watch your emails carefully”, from the beginning of February 2023, warned Étienne Thobois. For the lucky ones, it is actually in their mailbox that a letter will notify them of their sales window, which will take place from February 15 to March 15.
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The members of Club Paris 2024 – nearly one million according to the Cojo on this date – will be able to benefit from the first four days to choose their tickets, from February 15 to 19. All successful applicants will be given a 48-hour slot to compose their Olympic three-session packs for all sports except for surfing in Tahiti, which has no ticket office. The limit is set at six tickets per session and a maximum of thirty tickets. This sale by “pack” is a “novelty”, explains Paris 2024, which should theoretically “streamline” access, and which allows “nearly sixty million combinations”, assured Étienne Thobois.
Nearly 80% of the sessions will be open for sale, the remaining 20% being made up of tickets for highly demanded finals (basketball, 100 meters in athletics, etc.). The ticket office will be entirely digital to avoid fraud as much as possible. The promise of “Games accessible to all”, as Cojo boss Tony Estanguet has often repeated, will result in a first access price of 72 euros for a pack of three sessions (i.e. 24 euros per ticket). For the wealthiest, the most expensive pack will amount to 1,150 euros.
Half of the tickets under 50 euros
“Half of the tickets on sale will be 50 euros or less, it’s very important for us,” Estanguet recalled on Monday. Nearly 100,000 tickets will also be financed by the Cojo to give access to the Olympics to a public “who is not lucky enough to be able to afford them”, assured Tony Estanguet. There will also be the option for buyers to donate a ticket while shopping.
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In total, nearly three million tickets will sell during this first sales phase out of the ten million available for the Olympic Games (3.4 million for the Paralympic events, Ed).
For those who have not been lucky enough to be drawn, a second phase of sales, but this time individually, will begin in May 2023, again with a draw. Tickets for the opening and closing ceremonies will also be available for sale during this second phase. And finally, at the end of 2023, a last chance will be offered to try to come to the sites of the Olympic Games, with a final phase of unit sales.