Paris 2024: Over 2 million Paralympic tickets sold

Paris 2024: Over 2 million Paralympic tickets sold

2024-08-28 17:52:16

While the Paralympics kick off this Wednesday evening, the competition, which runs until September 8, has already been a widespread success with more than 2 million tickets sold so far, including those sold since the Games concluded earlier this month Nearly 1 million tickets were issued.

The atmosphere in the stands of the Grand Palais during the Olympic Games in Paris on August 4, 2024 (Photo credit – Paris 2024 / Raphaël Lafargue)

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The atmosphere in the stands of the Grand Palais during the Olympic Games in Paris on August 4, 2024 (Photo credit – Paris 2024 / Raphaël Lafargue)

SWhat if the Paris 2024 Paralympics ticket office had experienced encouraging start forward stagnant until springThe hosting of the Olympic Games, marked by the wonderful performance of French athletes and the atmosphere of the venues, has injected new vitality into the Olympic Games.

although Reached milestone of 1 million tickets sold in late Junethen the threshold is Increased to 1.75 million as of August 22then topped 1.85 million last weekend. Today, a new symbolic milestone has been exceeded, because the Asian Games Organizing Committee stipulated that more than 2 million precious sesame seeds have been produced. very good A buyer was found among the 2.8 million available quota.

This pleases organizers and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), who are accustomed to a noticeable return in interest between the end of the Olympics and the start of Paralympic competition.

Similar trends were seen during the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympics.

Specifically, 52% of ticket holders will be experiencing Paris 2024 for the first time, undoubtedly impressed by the enthusiasm of July and eager to attend this important meeting, as France is actually organizing its first Summer Paralympic Games.

More broadly, with the success of ticketing, public enthusiasm for a variety of sports and disciplines has been measured. So at least 75% of available tickets have been sold in about 20 sports, and about 10 have even completed at least 90% of their public sales.

This concerns in particular sports that benefit from special circumstances, such as blind football at the Eiffel Tower Stadium (7th arrondissement), armchair fencing and disabled taekwondo at the Grand Palais (8th arrondissement), the Arches at Les Invalides (7th arrondissement) shooting. Para road cycling, para rowing and para canoeing, as well as wheelchair rugby, are also benefiting from this strong demand.

In terms of audience source, 92% of ticket buyers were from France and 8% from abroad, with the British at the top of the list (28%) – their enthusiasm was one of the highlights of the 2012 Paralympics, ahead of the Germans ( 14%) and Americans (10%).

Overall, there are at least 144 ticket-holding countries, which, like the Olympics, will host national celebrations and international exchanges around sports values.

Paralympic excitement at the Arc de Triomphe facade in Paris (Image: Paris 2024/Tony Esnault and Jeanne Fauvel)

Throughout the Olympic Games (August 28-September 8), those wishing to obtain tickets to stadiums can log in At the official online ticket officetickets are still available for a variety of shows and released regularly.

By the time the Games are over, the Paris Paralympics will be able to write their names into Olympic history in any case, approaching the record held by the London 2012 Paralympics.

In the Olympic Pantheon, Paris 2024 now has an absolute record. With 9.535 million tickets sold last month, the 2024 edition actually surpassed the 8.38 million tickets sold for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

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