On your marks, get set, go: the Paris Olympic Games Organizing Committee (Cojop) unveiled the ticketing schedule on Tuesday evening for the 750 or so events that will take place between July 26 and August 11, 2024. from December 1 to January 31, 2023, everyone can register to be drawn. The purpose of this two-month period? Avoid server saturation as in previous editions, when everyone rushed to register. No need to run, you have to leave on time: “Regardless of the registration date, all participants will leave on an equal footing. The order of entries will not affect the results of the draw. specifies the Cojop in a press release.
From mid-February, the lucky winners will receive their “buying window»: they will then have 48 hours to treat themselves to a «pack» of three «sessions» (to be distinguished from tests, each test may include several sessions). One of the 45 million (sic) possible combinations, at random: the first round of the tennis tournament, a handball quarter-final and the playoffs of the gym team competition. The first four days of the sale, from February 15 to 18, will be reserved for members of the “Club Paris 2024”, a free promotional site. From May, a second phase will open, also accessible by drawing lots: the sale of single tickets. A third phase will take place at the end of 2023 for the remaining tickets, without a draw. On all the Olympic and Paralympic Games, 13.4 million tickets must be put on sale: next to the Euro football and its 2 million tickets is a small player. Emmanuel Macron had promised a “popular box office” : the entry price will be 24 euros, confirmed Paris 2024. One million tickets will be sold at this price, and half of the tickets sold to the general public will not exceed 50 euros.
There remains the problem of the protection of personal data. The Court of Auditors was concerned, in a report revealed at the end of July, of a risk of espionage if the Chinese giant Alibaba, “top sponsor” of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), provided the ticketing system, as during the last Winter Olympics in Beijing, at the beginning of 2022. The Cojop then wanted to be reassuring, saying that the ticket office would be operated ‘by a European specialist’. According to our information, this trusted third party would have been found, and it would be the French Atos, one of the world leaders in computing, whose headquarters are in Bezons in the Val-d’Oise.