“We know that people are going to be disappointed, and we know that we don’t have tickets for everybody,” the deputy general manager of the Paris Olympics said. “But we also know that we have more selling phases opening soon with more tickets.”
FILE - The Olympic rings are seen on the Place du Trocadero that overlooks the Eiffel Tower, after the vote in Lima, Peru, awarding the 2024 Games to the French capital, in Paris, Sept. 13, 2017. Organizers of the Paris 2024 Olympics promised Games with a relatively modest price tag and"egalitarian" access to events, thanks to an online draw meant to revolutionize ticket sales and bring the masses to next year's Olympics with prices as low as 24 euros .
There were tickets for a soccer match at 50 euros but Beney would also have to buy at least two tickets for two additional events. Available tickets included basketball or handball at 150 euros , swimming at 230 euros and a whopping 690 euros for a qualifying event in track and field.Beney was disappointed and said her son’s enthusiasm for attending their home Olympics on his 10th birthday vanished as they logged off without buying anything.
“We know that people are going to be disappointed, and we know that we don’t have tickets for everybody,” Michael Aloisio, the deputy general manager of the Paris Olympics, said in an interview with The Associated Press. “But we also know that we have more selling phases opening soon with more tickets.”
The announcement last year that there will be 1 million tickets at 24 euros and more than 4 million for less than 50 euros was received with enthusiasm from fans in France and around the world. However, those tickets were scooped up during the first few days of the lottery, leaving those “lucky” to be drawn later with high prices and few events to choose from.“It’s these tickets that allow for other tickets to be more accessible and balance it all out,” he said.
“I knew it will be expensive, but why is the system that promised to give me freedom and choice to form my own Olympic package tricking me into buying expensive tickets in sports I don’t want to see if I want to get expensive tickets for an event I really want to see,” Davis said. “The ticket pack thing is a racket.”
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