There were more than 1 million tickets available for Paris Games events, and more than a quarter million resale tickets up for grabs, a day before the opening ceremony.
Paris — Just one day before the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony, more than a million tickets to Olympic events were still unsold, including many for Friday's first-of-its-kind outdoor ceremony on the Seine river itself. Olympic organizers had set lofty ticket sale ambitions, and they have met some of them. Tony Estanguet, a three-time French Olympic canoeing champion and president of the Paris 2024 Olympic Organizing Committee, touted the record-breaking sale of 8.
For some locals who purchased tickets, it was the frustration of all the disruption caused by the construction and security around their city that has driven them away.See the schedule for the 2024 Paris OlympicsIn an attempt to recoup costs, many of those people have turned to the official ticket app — the only authorized resale market for Olympic event tickets.
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