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How to get Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics tickets

There are still opportunities to get tickets to the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games - with organisers announcing a series of 'flash sales' for the final Games tickets.

Published: 15 February 2023 17:17 CET
Updated: 27 February 2024 10:07 CET
How to get Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics tickets
The pre-Games Paralympic Day event at Place de la Republique, in Paris, on October 8, 2023. Photo by Geoffroy Van der Hasselt / AFP

The next tranche of Olympics tickets will be on sale on Wednesday, April 17th, marking 100 days before the opening ceremony.

The tickets will go on sale at 10am (Paris-time). They can be bought from anywhere in the world on the official Olympics website (paris2024.org). You will need an account to purchase tickets.

This round will offer up “more than 250,000 new tickets”, the head of the 2024 Olympic Organising Committee, Tony Estanguet, said during a press conference on Wednesday.

Estanguet specified that it will include all sports and events, with “a few exceptions”, likely for those that have already sold out.

The tickets will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis.

Paralympics

Tickets for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games (August 28th to September 8th) are available now on the official website.

Tickets are available for all sports from €15, whether for Para table tennis, Wheelchair Basketball at Bercy Arena, Para archery at Invalides, or Para swimming at Paris La Défense Arena.

Tickets for several officially ‘sold out’ sessions may also be put back on sale. The official website also says that “some sessions may be temporarily unavailable for sale” but users are “invited to come back in a few days to check again the availability of these sessions.”

The ticketing website – found here – is the same one as for the Olympics. If you have not used it before you will need to create an account, but if you tried for Olympic tickets you can log in using the same account. The site is available in French and English.

The ticketing website is the only official source of tickets – none are being sold via resale sites or national federations, so be extremely wary of tickets offered via any other source. 

Olympics

High demand coupled with a complicated lottery process left many disappointed when it came to buying Olympics tickets, but there are still some opportunities. 

Olympics officials have also promised to hold ‘surprise sales’ each month leading up to the Games. They will be announced just a few days in advance. Each will offer tickets subject to availability and on a first-come, first-served basis – ie no more lotteries.

Events outside the capital

Tickets for events outside the capital – including the men’s and women’s soccer (football) tournaments, in Nantes, Lyon, Saint-Étienne, Bordeaux, Nice and Marseille – are available daily on the official Paris 2024 ticketing website, from €24.

Basketball and handball tournaments to see the American Dream Team, Victor Wembanyama and the European (men’s) and World (women’s) champion handball players are also available in Lille from €50, and handball from €45.

Keep in mind that quarter, semi and finals tickets had begun to sell out already as of April.

Paris region events

Over eight million tickets have been snapped up, but several thousand are still available.

Organisers say that tickets will continue to be added to the sales site until the start of the Games, as venues finalise their capacity and tickets are distributed to sports clubs and associations. 

READ MORE: Hotels, tickets and scams: What to know about visiting Paris for the 2024 Olympics

Opening ceremony

Tickets for the spectacular opening ceremony, which will be held along the River Seine, sold out in a matter of moments when the ticketing website first opened.

However, Paris authorities have said there will be an extra 200,000 tickets – standing room only – available nearer the time. These will be free, although they must be reserved in advance on the official ticketing site – the exact date when they will become available is still to be confirmed. 

Resale site

In order to deter ticket touts, the Olympics will also set up an official resale website, so that people who bought tickets but are unable to attend can sell their tickets back to the organisers for the price they paid (minus an admin fee). These tickets will then be resold via the admin site, for the original price.

There’s no confirmed start date for this but it will be much closer to the event – at the moment it’s slated for the “second quarter of 2024”.

Any other options?

For the first time ever, ticketing is 100 percent digitalised and centralised on the same website, so it’s open to everyone around the world on exactly the same terms.

There has been a lot of work done on measures to stop ticket touting, probably these won’t all be successful but extreme caution is advised when buying from resale sites as these are not officially authorised. 

Prices – of the 10 million tickets available for the Olympics, 1 million are at €24 and 4 million are at €50, with the remaining 5 million selling at higher prices – from €60 right up to €960 for the finals of the big events and a whopping €2,700 for the most expensive tickets for the opening ceremony.

The 2024 Olympic Games run from 26th July to 11th August 2024, followed by the Paralympic Games from 28th August to 8th September.

READ ALSO Paris Paralympic Games organisers unveil events schedule

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PARIS 2024 OLYMPICS

Paris Olympics organisers deny athletes’ beds are ‘anti-sex’

They may be made of cardboard, but the beds at the athletes' village for this year's Paris Olympics have been chosen for their environmental credentials, not to prevent competitors having sex, organisers said.

Published: 18 May 2024 13:19 CEST
Paris Olympics organisers deny athletes' beds are 'anti-sex'

The clarification came after fresh reports that the beds, manufactured by Japanese company Airweave and already used during the Tokyo 2020 Games, were to deter athletes from jumping under the covers together in the City of Love.

“We know the media has had a lot of fun with this story since Tokyo 2020, but for Paris 2024 the choice of these beds for the Olympic and Paralympic Village is primarily linked to a wider ambition to ensure minimal environmental impact and a second life for all equipment,” a spokesman for the Paris Games told AFP.

The bed bases are made from recycled cardboard, but during a demonstration in July last year Airweave founder Motokuni Takaoka jumped on one of them and stressed that they “can support several people on top”.

The Paris Games spokesman underlined that “the quality of the furniture has been rigorously tested to ensure it is robust, comfortable and appropriate for all the athletes who will use it, and who span a very broad range of body types – from gymnasts to judokas”.

The fully modular Airweave beds can be customised to accommodate long and large body sizes, with the mattresses — made out of resin fibre — available with different firmness levels.

After the Games, the bed frames will be recycled while the mattresses and pillows will be donated to schools or associations.

Athletes will sleep in single beds, two or three to a room, in the village, a newly built complex close to the main athletics stadium in a northern suburb of the capital.

A report this week in the New York Post tabloid entitled “‘Anti-sex’ beds have arrived at Paris Olympics” was reported by other media and widely circulated on social media.

Similar claims went viral before the Tokyo Olympics, sometimes fanned by athletes themselves.

To debunk them, Irish gymnast Rhys McClenaghan filmed a video of himself jumping repeatedly on a bed to demonstrate their solidity.

At those Games, during the coronavirus pandemic, organisers, however, urged athletes to “avoid unnecessary forms of physical contact”.

In March, Laurent Dalard, in charge of first aid and health services at Paris 2024, said around 200,000 condoms for men and 20,000 for women will be made available at the athletes’ village during the Games.

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