It may not be too late to land the ticket of your dreams. Several hundred thousand tickets for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be released, little by little, every Thursday at 10 a.m. on the official sales platform. The first of its “Ticketing Thursdays” takes place this May 30, during which 30,000 new places will appear.
“We know that when we release tickets for highly anticipated sports, they go away in a few minutes,” says Capucine Bernet, the director of ticketing for Paris 2024. The objective is to give fans a meeting to that they have a chance to get the ticket they dream of.” Starting this Thursday, May 30, several sessions that were no longer available for sale will reappear.
Michaël Aloïsio, the deputy general director of Paris 2024, cites a few of them: “There will notably be places for athletics finals (decathlon and men's 10,000 m) from 85 euros, preliminary beach volleyball matches, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, from 24 euros, or meetings of the French rugby sevens team from 90 euros.”
From one Thursday to the next, however, the available places should concern different sports and sessions. If there are not many left, a handful of tickets for the opening and closing ceremonies on July 26 and August 11 could also appear on the platform. “It probably won't be this May 30, but in the coming weeks, there should be seats at attractive prices, from 90 euros, for the opening ceremony,” specifies Capucine Bernet.
This principle of slow sales in the home stretch before the Olympic Games had been implemented for a long time by the organization. “These tickets come largely from our technical contingency plans,” explains Michaël Aloïsio. Pending the final configuration of certain sites, places have therefore been frozen, and are now gradually released.
So far, of the total 10 million tickets for sale for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, 8.3 million have already found buyers. There are therefore 1.7 million remaining, which is made up of both tickets that are permanently available, particularly for the football tournament, and those that will appear occasionally every Thursday. An official resale platform is also in place. A commission, linked to “the operating costs of this service”, is however deducted from this: 10% of the face value of the ticket for the buyer, and 5% for the seller. The ticket office for the Paralympic Games is also open. So far, 150,000 places have been sold.
- The thousands of internal security forces deployed in the capital during the 2024 Olympics will not be enough to stem crime in Paris. At least that is what Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau fears, invited this Monday, May 27 to our colleagues at Franceinfo. Worse still, she expects an “increase in the volume of delinquency incidents,” she declared. “We are expecting more of an increase in the volume (...) than a real evolution in the delinquency that we are seeing in the Parisian area,” she clarified. “There will be more tourists, so (that’s what) we anticipated.”
- Among the expected crimes, “pickpocketing, pickpocketing, offenses when you have had a little too much to drink, acts of violence, perhaps sexual assault,” she continued, characterizing all these misdeeds as the “classic of delinquency.”
- Among the main concerns of the Paris prosecutor? “Cyber attacks,” over which the Paris prosecutor’s office “has national jurisdiction in the fight,” she continued. “Cyber attacks will be increased, we know, because the previous Olympic Games were victims of these attacks.”
- Faced with this expected increase, the Paris prosecutor's office will strengthen its staff this summer. “We decided to mobilize magistrates in numbers much higher than those currently available,” declared Laure Beccuau, who mentions reinforcements coming, in particular, from the Paris Court of Appeal. Usually there is an immediate appearance hearing in July on certain days (of the week). There, every day, there will be three immediate appearance hearings, and two appearance hearings for prior admission of guilt,” she cites as an example. “The institution is trying to be there for this event which should be festive,” concluded the magistrate.
