During an interview with the Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, The cross got the distribution detail from the popular box office. In total, more than 400,000 tickets will be allocated free of charge for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris. They will be distributed as follows: 100,630 tickets for the Olympic Games and 300,300 for the Paralympic Games. Finally, 1,870 tickets will be offered to attend the opening ceremony on Friday, July 26, 2024.
the state “thus confirms its commitment to contribute to the popular enthusiasm around Paris 2024, by associating with the event our youth, fragile, disadvantaged or distant audiences from the competition”, indicates the ministry.
A unique device
Volunteers will receive 100,100 tickets. “This large number of places aims to enhance both the commitment of volunteers for the exceptional event that the Paris 2024 Games represent, and their daily investment in all of our amateur clubs, at the service of the vitality of sport. », says the ministry. Public officials in categories B and C will be offered 24,500 tickets to attend the events.
The allocation of these free places is meant to be inclusive. According to information obtained by The cross on April 3, 17,400 tickets will be offered to people with disabilities and their caregivers. “The ministry is in contact with various associations to find out how best to distribute these places”we say on the side of the institution.
In addition, young people will be rewarded with 258,800 tickets, exclusively for the Paralympic Games. “We want there to be this educational virtue of exposing young people, through these free places intended for them, to the discovery of parasport. » This lot will be at “destination for students from CM1 to Terminale, in all schools in France (public and private), metropolitan and overseas”explains the ministry.
The ticket office for the Paralympics, open in the fall
Amélie Oudéa-Castéra recalls on this subject that 500,000 tickets at 15 € (ie the entrance price) will thus be on sale for the Paralympic Games and that 50% of the tickets will be at less than 25 €.
If the ticket office for the Paralympic Games does not open until the fall of 2023, the latter will not be modeled on the same model as that of the Olympic Games. Without a draw, the purchase will be made directly, via the acquisition of single or group tickets, on the official platform.
“The volumes are not the same. We have 10 million tickets on sale for the Olympic Games and 3 million for the Paralympic Games, recalls Amélie Oudéa-Castéra. On volumes as large as that of the Olympic Games, you need to have systems to make it more fluid, which is why we have set up the draw. This is not the case for the Paralympic Games, where volumes are lower. »