A guide to how Paris will welcome fans, stage 32 sports at first post-pandemic Olympics
The Olympics is on track to be back in business with millions of visitors coming to Paris for the 2024 Games.
The French capital has the expert experience to stage the event and welcome guests for the first Olympics of the post-pandemic era.
That should be a relief after a chaotic lead-in to the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and uncertainty from postponing the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 with no guarantee it would eventually happen one year later. It did, but in almost entirely empty venues.
Organizers, athletes and fans preparing for competitions in Paris — and regional French cities like Lille and Marseille, plus the far-away surfing venue of Tahiti in the South Pacific — can be confident the show will go on.
Here's a look at what we can expect from the 2024 Paris Olympics:
About 10 million tickets were made available for the Paris Olympics with 329 medal events in 32 different sports spread across 18 different days of competition.
Close to 7 million have already been sold with one year to go before the opening ceremony on July 26.
The system for selling tickets has been streamlined through the organizing committee's own online sales point and a new hospitality program run by American company On Location.
Organizers are directly selling about 8 million tickets with the promise that 1 million will be available for all sports priced at 24 euros ($26 US), and many more costing 50 euros ($55) or less.
Would-be buyers had to register for the chance to be allocated tickets in the first two sales phases but the current wave is first-come, first-served for events in cities outside Paris.
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