The milestone has been reached. The COJO Paris 2024 announced via a press release on Tuesday August 28, a few hours before the opening ceremony, that it had reached its objective of 2 million tickets sold for the Paralympic Games. Half of them have been purchased since the start of the Olympics. The organizing committee specifies that 48% of ticket holders for the Paralympic Games had already acquired places for the Olympic Games. Present at the “ first leg », so they come back for the return trip. The audience for the Paralympic Games is essentially French (92%), but ticket buyers come from 144 countries. Among foreign spectators, the British lead the procession (28%), ahead of the Germans (14%) and the Americans (10%). To date, around twenty sports have sold at least 75% of their tickets, of which more than ten are at 90% occupancy of the stands (blind football, wheelchair fencing, para track cycling, para equestrian, para taekwondo , para archery, para triathlon, para rowing, para badminton, para canoeing and wheelchair rugby).
