The countdown has started. The first phase of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games ticket office will open on Thursday 1 December, offering fans around the world the first opportunity to secure tickets to the highly anticipated Olympics. Those wishing to experience the Games first-hand will be able to start their trip to Paris by entering the draw for the first ticket sale on https://tickets.paris2024.orgbetween December 1st and January 31st. Tickets will go on sale for all Olympic venues (with the exception of surfing and the opening ceremony), in order to offer fans the opportunity to enjoy world-class sporting events against the backdrop of France and the world-famous monuments of Paris. world: from breaking in Place de la Concorde to beach volleyball in the Eiffel Tower Stadium. Fans will also be able to personalize their experience of the Games thanks to “Make Your Games” packages which will allow them to plan a tailor-made stay in Paris and other Games venues in France.
For the first time in the history of the Games, ticket sales will be done exclusively on a single, centralized digital platform, which will be open to all fans simultaneously. The platform will put around 10 million tickets on sale to the Olympic public: one million tickets costing just €24, around half at €50 or less. Consistent with Paris 2024’s commitment to make the Games fully accessible, these prices apply to tickets for the 32 sports on the Olympic program (with the exception of surfing, which will be held in Tahiti, for which there will be no ticket sales ). For a relatively small fee, 24 euros, fans will be able to attend athletics at the Stade de France, archery at Les Invalides, as well as equestrian events at Versailles. “We are passionate about making Paris 2024 a “Wide Open” Games and, even more, we are passionate about bringing this concept to life,” said Tony Estanguet, President of Paris 2024. “I am genuinely excited by the idea of Paris sharing the own emblematic places and facilities with the fans, and that they can experience the emotion and magical atmosphere offered by full stadiums. It’s not just the athletes who prepare for the Games. The spectators are preparing too. And their journey begins now! “. From 1 December 2022 to 31 January 2023, anyone around the world will be able to enter the draw. The people drawn will be given a 48-hour time slot between 15 February and 15 March 2023 for the purchase of tickets. This draw, intended to assign a specific time slot for the purchase of tickets, is the novelty introduced by these Olympics to allow a more user-friendly experience for those drawn. In May 2023, the opening of single ticket sales is expected. Over three million tickets for the Paralympic Games will go on sale in autumn 2023. Meanwhile, numerous Olympic qualifying events will be held next year: Italy in Tokyo 2020 had set an all-time record, 40 medals. Difficult to repeat himself, “but I’m optimistic” Giovanni Malagò always said.
Abodi proposes the European appointment of the Youth Games
“We are resuming a stable presence of the Ministry of Sport and Youth here in Brussels with an attaché that we haven’t had for too many years”. This was announced by the Minister for Sport, Andrea Abodi, on the sidelines of the Sport Council in Brussels. “This is because we believe we must, and not only be able, to seize all the opportunities that Europe makes available for the topics that have been assigned. We will also have correspondence in our Ministry, within the Department, who will be in contact with our society ‘Sport and health is to develop initiatives that allow for the collection of financial resources that currently concern the activities'”, he explained. “But I will also ask colleagues to evaluate the possibility of classifying sports facilities as social infrastructure. To date in Europe, there is probably a need to clarify in our common vocabulary, sports facilities are not classified as social infrastructure, so much so that Europe, we in Europe, finance the activities but we are unable to directly finance the infrastructures”, highlighted Abodi. At the center of the meeting in Brussels “is the theme of school and sport. What we will have to do to make the school a friend of sport and vice versa. It is a project to implement school gyms, with the increase in hours not only at fifth of primary school but to all five classes and with the recruitment of at least 70,000 physical education teachers and the reinstatement of the Youth Games as a factor of sporting socialization but also of literacy”, added the minister. “Food education is not a secondary issue. Almost a third of children are overweight, Italy is the fifth among OECD countries in terms of sedentary lifestyle and this also has an effect on health spending: we are talking about 4 billion per year years determined by a sedentary lifestyle”, explained the minister, noting how, “starting from the school, these elements must be improved. And the infrastructures must be improved”. “Ours is an absolutely demanding mandate program. We will also launch the proposal to arrive at a European appointment of the Youth Games”, he underlined. On the World Cup in Qatar “the theme of Italy’s non-participation fades into the background because here there is a primary theme, certainly that of human rights”, explained Abodi. “If I had to express a moral evaluation that goes far beyond the sporting one, it is that we have room for improvement and a country like ours, together with other international bodies, must do its part so that even in that corner of the world the dutiful respect not only for workers but for all people”.
