No wonder: the success of the opening ceremony, and the very smooth start of the Paris 2024 Games, are being felt in ticketing. Etienne Thobois, the general director of the OCOG, announced Monday July 29 that more than 200.000 tickets had been sold since the start of the event. “ We are at a rate of just over 40.000 new tickets per day, he explained during the daily press briefing with the IOC. They mainly concern the football tournament. » In Lille, site of the first phase of the basketball tournament, the first six sessions were all sold out. The day before, the organizers announced that they had exceeded the mark of 9 million tickets sold.
— Published July 29, 2024