After a first phase marked by some controversy, the second phase of ticket sales for the Paris 2024 Olympics will soon begin.
Just over a year from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, ticketing is obviously a major issue for the organizing committee. After a complicated first phase (overpriced tickets, unavailable disciplines), the second phase of sales will soon begin. You had the opportunity to register on the official ticketing website until April 20, 2023, at 6 p.m., to participate in the draw giving access to a slot for the purchase of single tickets. If you are drawn, this slot will be notified to you by email from May 9, 2023. This is a 48-hour window, which guarantees access to unit sales in real time. The first sales will take place on May 11.
There will be a priori 300,000 tickets at 24 euros, and “1.5 million” in total according to Tony Estanguet, the chairman of the organizing committee of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Each account can purchase up to 30 tickets (including the total of the first phase) with a maximum of 6 tickets per session, a maximum of 4 tickets for each ceremony and for the high demand competition sessions (60 sessions in 11 sports). Note that those who were drawn in the first phase do not need to re-register. They just have to wait again and hope to be selected.
What are the ticket prices?
This second stage, that of the sale of single tickets, concerns the 20% of the most requested Olympic sessions. Here are the prices set up for the second phase of sales.
- Breaking, skateboarding and BMX Freestyle finals at Place de la Concorde: between €50 and €160
- Basketball finals (August 10 and 11) at Arena Bercy: between €95 and €980
- Athletics finals (August 4 – 100m men, women’s high jump and men’s hammer throws) at the Stade de France: between €125 and €980
- Beach volleyball finals (August 9 and 10) at the Eiffel Tower stadium: between €100 and €420
- Archery finals at the Invalides: between €50 and €190
- Equestrian sports finals at the Palace of Versailles: between €50 and €420
- Handball finals (August 9 and 10) at Stade Pierre-Mauroy: between €90 and €320
- Fencing finals at the Grand Palais: between €90 and €290
- Swimming finals: between €125 and €980
- Mixed team judo final (August 3) at the Aréna Champs-de-Mars: between €100 and €380
- Opening ceremony: free on the upper platforms, between €90 and €2,700 for the lower platforms
- Closing ceremony: between €45 and €1,600
Finally, here is the detail of the prices according to the events for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
- Athletics: from 24 to 690€
- Rowing: from 24 to 120€
- Badminton: from 24 to 240€
- Basketball: from 24 to 280€
- Boxing: from 24 to 210€
- Breakdance: from 24 to 120€
- Canoe-kayak: from 24 to 175€
- Cycling: from 24 to 180€
- Horse riding: from 24 to 180€
- Climbing: from 24 to 90€
- Fencing: from 24 to 150€
- Football: from 24 to 200€
- Golf: from 24 to 150€
- Gymnastics: from 24 to 260€
- Weightlifting: from 24 to 180€
- Handball: from 24 to 200€
- Field hockey: from 24 to 120€
- Judo: from 24 to 150€
- Wrestling: from 24 to 190€
- Aquatic sports (swimming, diving, water polo): from 24 to 260€
- 7-a-side rugby: from €24 to €170
- Skateboard: from 24 to 120€
- Taekwondo: from 24 to 130€
- Tennis: from 24 to 170€
- Table tennis: from 24 to 160€
- Shooting: from 24 to 45€
- Archery: from 24 to 100€
- Triathlon: from 24 to 40€
- Sailing: 24€
- Volleyball: from 24 to 180€
- Beach volleyball: from €24 to €240
After a first phase of sales at the start of the year, the second will begin on May 11 after a draw. The organizers have planned a third phase which will take place at the end of the year. 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”.