Start of the 3rd phase of ticket sales for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games this Wednesday, July 5.
The third phase of ticketing for the Olympic Games opens this Wednesday, July 5, at 10 a.m., on the dedicated Paris 2024 platform. During this phase, it will be possible to buy places for the events that take place in the provinces. Please note that there is no raffle and that the platform will remain open until the opening ceremony on July 26, 2024. Just over 3 million tickets are still available.
For this phase, three sports are involved. The preliminary basketball tournament in Lille as well as the final handball phase in Lille as well. Places are also available for the Olympic football tournament in provincial stadiums: Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Nice and Saint-Étienne. Tickets for the sailing events, which take place in Marseille, will also go on sale from Wednesday. For the other places available, they will be put on sale as and when.
What are the prices ?
The prices for this 3rd sales phase range between €24 and €320 for the four sports. Between €30 and €200 to attend a football match in stadiums other than the Parc de Princes, between €45 and €320 to attend the final phase of the handball tournament in Lille and between €24 and €200 for the preliminary phase of basketball. Of the million €24 tickets put up for sale by Paris 2024, 150,000 are still available. All sailing sessions in Marseille are offered at 24 €.
After a first sales phase at the start of the year, the second on May 11 after a draw. The organizers are launching the 3rd phase from July 5. A section dedicated to resale will also see the light of day before the start of the Olympic Games in July 2024. Tickets cannot be resold for more than the purchase price.
A controversy over ticket prices
Asked about France Info in early April 2023, Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castera responded to criticism of ticket prices deemed too high by part of the public. “We’re talking about the biggest sporting event in the world. We don’t ask ourselves these kinds of questions when we go to a Madonna concert. We have a million tickets at 24€ and 10% of tickets over 200€”, said she tried to justify. “These are usual prices for the Olympic Games. We are below the London prices,” she said. And to conclude: “We have set up a popular ticket office in which the state will offer 400,000 tickets for young people, people with disabilities”.