“It may be easier to participate in the Olympics than see it as a spectator in my own country,” she said on Facebook, echoing the anger of current athletes at not being able to secure tickets for their families. “The price makes me sick,” European medalist and former Olympic gymnast Marine Debauve said of the 690 euros ($742) that tickets to a gymnastics final event would cost her. From mid-March, when sales started, lottery winners had a 48-hour window to buy tickets from a minimum of three events, reserving the same number of tickets for each session.įor those hoping to see just one sport, it meant potentially tripling their budget, although organizers have promised to allow resale of unwanted tickets next spring. Members of the public were asked to sign up for a lottery draw for the chance to buy tickets. Unlike past Games, Paris 2024 set up a “games pack” purchase system. Serbia's Novak Djokovic holds the winner's trophy during the presentation after beating Switzerland's Roger Federer during their men's singles final on day thirteen of the 2019 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon, London, on July 14, 2019.
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“It’s a shame, it’s being done in our city, it’s just next door, we’ll be bothered by all the visitors etc we’ll be impacted but we won’t have the positive sides,” he said, adding that he’ll likely end up watching the games on TV at home. “Crazy, it was just crazy,” the 23-year-old developer told CNN of the price of the available tickets. While organizers and the French government claim that it’ll be the most inclusive games yet, a growing chorus of voices isn’t convinced.Īccessibility is a main concern, both financially due to the eye-watering cost of tickets, and for disabled people who worry about navigating Paris’ decades-old transport infrastructure.įlavien Lallemand had barely made it on the Paris 2024 ticketing site, before deciding it wasn’t worth it.
One hundred years after the Olympics last graced the streets of Paris, the city is braced for the return of the world’s largest sporting event next summer. The date is set, venues have been chosen, tickets are on sale.
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