Paris-2024 Olympics: half of the tickets will be sold at 50 euros or less

Published on: 03/22/2022 – 07:51 The ticketing strategy for the Paris-2024 Olympic Games was unveiled on Monday by the organizing committee. This provides in particular for half of the tickets on sale at 50 euros and less during the year 2023, an essential financial windfall to complete a budget of 4 billion euros. In total, more than 13 million tickets will be available for sale, for the Olympics and the Paralympics. The organizers of the Paris-2024 Olympic Games unveiled their ticketing strategy on Monday March 22, in particular offering half of the tickets for sale at 50 euros and less, during the year 2023, an essential financial windfall to complete their budget of 4 billion euros. After having unveiled in December, with a lot of visuals, an unprecedented opening ceremony outside the stadium entirely on the Seine, the invoice for which has not yet been posted, the organizing committee (Cojo) looked into the ticket office. Of course, the pandemic scenario is still brewing, after the camera in Tokyo, and very few spectators in Beijing. A year ago, the boss of the Cojo, Tony Estanguet, told parliamentarians that the committee was working on several models for this reason. More than 13.4 million tickets will be available for sale: 10 million for the Olympic Games and 3 .4 million for the Paralympics. Everything will be sold in 2023, via a draw system (registration from December 2022) which will generate purchase slots in February and May, then at the end of 2023. >> To read on France24.com: Paris-2024: Olympic sites designed to leave “a social legacy” “Accessible prices” Price level, one million Olympic tickets, will be sold at 24 euros for all sports. And 50% of Olympic tickets will be sold at 50 euros or less. For the boss of the Cojo, Tony Estanguet, the idea is to have “Games open to the greatest number, popular, unifying”, with “a large volume of tickets at affordable prices, for all sports”. IOC). On the sponsor side, the round table – 1.1 billion euros – has not yet been completed. The interministerial delegate for the Olympic Games, Michel Cadot, recently gave the Cojo a thumbs up: adherence to schedule […] as on the budgetary level, the files are very well controlled”, he explained to the Assembly. After the revision of 2020, which had resulted in 300 million savings, expenditure and income will be The next budget revision is indeed scheduled for the end of 2022. The executive has asked the organizers to seize its audit committee to review the budget by the summer. that the Cojo could see its forecasts hit by the inflationary context or by possible economic consequences linked to the war in Ukraine.At the same time, the organizers are managing other sensitive issues, such as that of the torch relay. of departments have publicly refused the entrance ticket to 150,000 euros excluding taxes for the passage of the flame, judging it prohibitive. The Cojo insists on the fact that it does not earn money with the operation and that it supports part of it. departments have yet to respond. Anger on the basketball sideCertain test sites are also talking about them. After the shooting site at La Courneuve, on track to stay there, it is now the site of the basketball qualifying events, one of the halls of the Parc des Expos at Porte de Versailles, which is causing a lot of talk, in particular on Twitter. “How can we accept to see basketball, the most popular co-sport at the Olympics, being sent to the exhibition grounds?” Evan Fournier, Olympic vice-champion with the France team, protested last week. in Tokyo. How can we accept to see basketball, the most popular Co sport at the Olympic Games, being sent to the exhibition center?
Ceiling too low, room unsuitable. @Jpsiutat we can’t let this pass!!!
I think I’m dreaming! pic.twitter.com/AAhGsaOjAp— Evan Fournier (@EvanFourmizz) March 16, 2022 a ‘horizontality’ between all sports”, replied the five-time Olympic biathlon champion, now a member of the IOC Athletes’ Commission, Martin Fourcade. For its part, the Cojo explains that meetings are underway with the international basketball federation to find “technical solutions” for the layout of the room. But all this did not appease the basketball player who tried to train handball, who will play in Lille, in his fight: “Seriously, I am a handball player, I am told that I am going to live the @Paris2024 Olympic Games in Lille. I FASTING A LEAD. It’s a shame. Don’t let it go. How many gold medals did you bring back to France? What a lack of respect.”