Ambitious, Paris 2024 Targets Selling 13.4 Million Tickets

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JAKARTA - The head of the organizing committee for the 2024 Paris Olympics hopes to sell 10 million tickets with an additional 3.4 million tickets available for the Paralympics.

London 2012 sold under nine million tickets to be exact at around 8.2 million, while Atlanta 1996 sold about 8.3 million of the 11 million available.

"We will have 13.4 million tickets for sale. Ten million for the Olympics and 3.4 million for the Paralympics. This is a unique number of tickets," said Paris 2024 chairman Tony Estanguet.

"It's ambitious. We believe that the Paris 2024 Games will be unique."

"The ticket program represents a third of our revenue. So it's very important for us to make the most of this program."

Estanguet said the cheapest tickets for the Olympics would be priced at 24 euros, and 15 euros for the Paralympics.

"We want to have a ticket program that starts with tickets costing 24 euros for all sports. There are more than a million tickets at this price," said Estanguet.

"This is a very strong commitment. To provide access to all Olympic sports. Half of the tickets will be under 50 euros."

The registration phase "on a single and unique platform provided by CTS Eventim, France Billet and Orange Business Services" will begin at the end of the year, Estanguet said.

He said there would be no other official platform or provider for tickets, and that the platform would give fans a safe option to resell their tickets.

Estanguet added that a lottery will be held later to anticipate there will be more people who want to buy tickets than the number that has been provided.

"The early draw means that people don't have to go through the whole process, trying to buy tickets first and ending up empty-handed," Estanguet said.

"In February 2023, we will launch ticket sales (actually)."

After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there were questions about whether registration for ticket purchases would be limited to Russian or Belarusian nationals.

"We will discuss it in the coming months, but we still have time to decide," said Estanguet.