Those who failed and dissatisfied with the first phase of ticket sales for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games (OG) are entitled to a catch-up session. From March 15 and until April 20, it is in fact possible to register for the draw for single ticketing on the Tickets.paris2024.org platform – it should be noted that 99% of registered in the first phase have chosen to be so also for the second.
“Whether we have already been drawn or not does not change the chances of being drawn for phase 2”, specified, Thursday February 23 on Franceinfo, Michaël Aloïsio, spokesperson for Paris 2024. The lucky ones will be, from May 9, informed of the opening of their forty-eight hour purchase slot. The single ticket sales phase will open on May 11, and should end – the date is not fixed – a little before the D − 1 year of the Olympics, in July.
The ticket office for the Paralympic Games will be open in October (without a draw procedure). More than three million tickets will then be on sale.
How many tickets can you buy?
Despite the controversy over ticket prices, the Organizing Committee for the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics (Cojop) was pleased to have sold 3.25 million sesames for the Olympic competitions during the marketing by packs.
For this phase of single sales, he hopes to sell 1.5 million additional tickets – out of a total of eight million for the general public. “I expect this second phase to continue to generate disappointments and frustrations. It’s inevitable, but it will once again make people happy, and you have to try your luck.explained, Tuesday, March 14, to Agence France-Presse Tony Estanguet, the boss of the Cojop.
Each of the people drawn will be able to buy up to thirty tickets. Attention, entries included in the packs must be deducted from this total, which is a maximum per spectator. Thus, someone who, for example, has already acquired six places during the first phase will be able to buy up to twenty-four from the ticket office individually if they are drawn again.
For this second phase, 767 sessions are on sale, in all disciplines – 20% of the events or finals were not offered during the initial phase. While it is possible to buy up to six tickets per session, this figure is reduced to four for the most prestigious final events as well as for the opening and closing ceremonies – the most requested sessions – which will be marketed individually.
Tickets, yes, but at what price?
The organizers promise to put tickets back on sale in all disciplines. You will have to be in the starting blocks: according to the principle of first drawn, first served, there will not be enough for everyone, and not at all costs. Climbing and freestyle BMX were sold out on the first day of the pack sale – fencing, judo, breaking and even track cycling a few days later – which had caused a lot of frustration and anger .
About 150,000 tickets at 24 euros – the lowest price for the Olympics – out of the remaining 300,000 will be sold from May 11, ie 10% of the available offer. At this price, no 100m, basketball or 100m freestyle finals, for example, whose places will be between 125 and 980 euros. The same applies to the opening ceremonies along the Seine (from 90 euros to 2,700 euros on the lower quays, free on the upper quays) and closing ceremonies at the Stade de France (between 45 euros and 1,600 euros).
For smaller wallets, it will cost, for example, between 90 euros and 320 euros to attend the handball finals or between 85 euros and 420 euros for the horse riding finals at the Palace of Versailles. The organizers of Paris 2024 ensure that they are in the price standards of previous editions of the Olympic Games and, in particular, that they are not more expensive than in London in 2012.
A last chance after the draw?
In case of failure during the draw or if the tickets found are out of budget, there are still two possibilities. A third phase of sales – without drawing lots – must indeed be opened by the end of 2023 and until 2024. After the summer, there should be more than three million tickets left for the general public. So many possibilities to taste “The Magic of the Games”as the Cojop boasts.
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In addition, an official platform will open in the spring of 2024 to allow buyers who wish to resell their places. “At the face value of the tickets”assure the organizers, who recall that auctions will not be authorized, as it exists in certain professional sports – Ticketplace, the resale platform of Paris-Saint-Germain, allows it, for example.
Despite all these possibilities, those who stay on the side of the ticket office will still be able to go to Club France, in the Parc de la Villette, in the 19e district of Paris, to follow the Olympic events for free on a giant screen. But to congratulate the future French medalists, it will also be necessary to pay. The price of the entry ticket has not yet been fixed, but access to the Grande Halle de la Villette, where the celebrations for the athletes will take place, will not be free, says The team former skater Nathalie Péchalat, deputy president of Club France.
Seine-Saint-Denis will “finalize shortly” the purchase of “about 40,000 tickets”
“We should finalize shortly,” with the Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Cojop), the purchase of tickets, assured, Tuesday March 14, Stéphane Troussel, the president of the department of Seine-Saint-Denis. “We will be at around 40,000 tickets and this concerns tickets at all prices”, he added, when he had just unveiled, 500 days before the start of the Games, a giant counter on the forecourt of the hotel of the department, in Bobigny. Almost a week ago, while criticism was piling up on the unpopular dimension of the Games, given the prices to be paid to attend the events, Mr. Troussel had insisted on recalling that his department intended to commit 1 million euros to purchase 40,000 tickets (16,000 for the Olympic Games, 24,000 for the Paralympics) at destination “of the most vulnerable young people and public”. He pointed out that “open discussions on the only Olympics” with the Cojop had not yet come to fruition.