The 2 million ticket sales mark has been reached

Paul Rouget, Media365: published on Tuesday August 27, 2024 at 3:05 p.m.

Paris 2024 boss Tony Estanguet has announced that more than 2 million places for the Paris Paralympic Games have been sold.

Tickets for the Paris Paralympic Games are experiencing “extraordinary” interest, as Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, the resigning Minister of Sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games, explained. On Tuesday, during a press conference organized on the eve of the opening ceremony, Tony Estanguet, the head of Paris 2024, announced that the 2 million ticket sales mark had been reached, out of a total of 2.5 million. “We have already sold around two million tickets. We have stadiums that will be full,” confided the three-time Olympic canoeing champion. And I know that we will continue to sell tickets even during the competition and until the end, as for the Olympic Games.”

There are therefore still a little less than 500,000 places available, as “AOC” explained on Monday. “This is a very good performance. It means that there are a little more than 900,000 that have been sold since the Olympic Games. This is a rate, on average, of the order of 30,000 per day, which is extraordinary. It must continue, there are still a certain number of places,” declared Oudéa-Castéra on France Bleu.

With 200,000 schoolchildren

Alongside the president of the International Paralympic Committee, Brazilian Andrew Parsons, Estanguet also explained that some 200,000 schoolchildren will be present in the stadiums, in order to “capitalize on the start of the school year,” scheduled for next Monday. “It’s also a way to get a message across to this age group, the change in perspective also depends on this generation,” Estanguet said.

Who is delighted to have benefited from a “very strong effect of the Olympic Games. You shouldn’t miss that. It marks a life”, he confided again on France Inter, arguing that “the French will want to discover sports that they don’t know, discover these athletes. They will rediscover the magic that they experienced a few weeks ago with sites at the Grand Palais, at the Château de Versailles, on the Champs-Elysées, at the Invalides.”