The 2024 Olympic Games in Paris will take place in 100 days. The first events are scheduled for July 24, two days before the opening ceremony on the Seine, July 26. For months, millions of buyers have been able to purchase tickets on the official Paris 2024 sales platform. An additional 250,000 seats across all sports will still be available on April 17 from 10am.
Until now, many buyers have not received anything other than a purchase confirmation by email and are worried. They don’t have access to their place yet. But this will soon be possible, Tony Estanguet told the readers of Le Parisien – Today in France this Monday. “We are opening ticket sales on May 15,” explains the president of the Paris 2024 organizing committee, before detailing what there will be to do there.
“There you can download your tickets, decide to forward them to those you want to offer them to. It will be possible to tell the person’s identity and phone number,” he adds. This allocation of tickets to the person of your choice will not allow access to the competition venue as required by security. “Then you will have to download your ticket: at the last moment you will receive a dynamic QR code that you cannot fake or send,” emphasizes Tony Estanguette. The application will be called “Tickets for Paris 2024”.
“Any resale outside the platform is prohibited”
This last-minute supply is aimed at limiting black market risks. Resale of tickets, however, will be possible, but through the official channel, in the same application, Tony Estangue clarified. “If for personal reasons we end up being more interested and more available, we may try to resell our tickets at the price we bought them for,” he says. But “any off-site resale is prohibited, and you risk being stuck at the entrance with no way to enter the competition area,” he insists.
If the idea of ticket sales is to be “100% digital,” Tony Estanguet doesn’t completely close the door on those who resist using smartphones. “If we really don’t have a phone, we will find an opportunity at the entrance to the sites so that people who come with a confirmation or a printed document can enter,” concludes Tony Estanguette. This would indeed be a marginal exception. »
Source: Le Parisien
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