As for the first phase, which ended last week, it will first have to be drawn.

A total of 1.5 million tickets will go on sale starting May 11.

It will be possible to acquire tickets for the unprecedented opening ceremony on the Seine (from 90 euros to 2,700 euros) but also for the finals of certain sports.

Of the 10 million Olympic tickets, 8 million are sold directly to the general public.

At the end of the first phase, 3.25 million tickets were sold.

Nearly 13% were sold at 24 euros, 70% at less than 100 euros and 4.5% at more than 200 euros, detailed the organizers who boasted of "success".

"I expect this second phase to continue to generate disappointments and frustrations. It's inevitable, but it will once again make people happy and you have to try your luck," Tony Estanguet told AFP. , the boss of the organizing committee, recalling that 4 million tickets were available at less than 50 euros and one million at 24 euros.

10% of tickets are over 200 euros.

"This proportion there, above 200 euros, is less than for a Madonna concert at the Arena de Bercy", commented Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, Minister of Sports and the Olympics, on France Inter on Tuesday.

Some of the 24 euro tickets have already been pre-ordered by communities.

Thus the department of Seine-Saint-Denis - which unveils Wednesday 500 days from the start of the Olympics a giant counter on the hotel of the department - has ordered "40,000 tickets", 16,000 for the Olympics and 24,000 for the Paralympic Games, for "the most vulnerable young people and audiences".

The city of Paris will also buy 43,000 tickets and will offer 50,000, with those obtained via the organizing committee's endowment fund.

In addition, the State will buy 400,000 tickets for "schoolchildren", "volunteers of the sports movement", "people with disabilities" ... for an amount of 11 million euros.

The expected ticketing revenue should bring in nearly 1.4 billion euros out of an overall budget of 4.4 billion euros.

There will then be another sale at the end of 2023 and until 2024 "over the water on a first-come, first-served basis".

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