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PARIS 2024 OLYMPICS

Ticket sales to open in October for 2024 Paris Paralympic Games

First-come, first-served tickets for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games will go on sale in early October, it has been announced.

Published: 28 August 2023 17:03 CEST
Ticket sales to open in October for 2024 Paris Paralympic Games
The Olympic Phryges mascots (Photo by Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)

The 2024 Paralympic Games, hosted by Paris, will run from August 28th to September 8th, and tickets will go on sale on Monday, October 9th, 2023.

Unlike for the Olympic Games, you will not need to register and enter a draw in order to purchase tickets for the Paralympic Games.

Instead, tickets will be available online, for all sports and events, including the finals. They will be sold on first-come, first-served.

In terms of price, tickets will start at €15. According to the official Paralympics website, about half of tickets available will cost less than €25. 

READ MORE: Paris Olympics and Paralympics: How to maximise your chances of getting tickets

As for the Paralympic Opening ceremony, which will take place at Place de la Concorde, Le Parisien reported that tickets are expected to be more expensive, ranging from €150 to €700.

Up to 30 tickets per account will be allowed, and they are counted independently from your tickets for the Olympic Games.

You can also choose between other offers, like the ‘discovery pass’ which costs €24 and allows three to seven ‘Para sports sessions per day’ for the Paris Centre, or the six to seven ‘Para sports sessions per day’ for Paris South.

Families can benefit from the ‘family pass’ which will allow families to purchase two standard tickets and then two children’s tickets for just €10 per child.

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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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