Europe 1 with AFP 6:55 p.m., December 01, 2022

Ticketing for the 2024 Paris Olympics officially launched on Thursday, with the first registrations registered for the draw that will choose packs of three Olympic sessions from February 15, 2023.

Available from late Thursday morning at 11 a.m., the tickets.paris2024.org site has registered the first candidates to try to obtain the precious sesame.

The organizers, however, did not wish to communicate the number of connections recorded on Monday.

In total, nearly three million tickets will sell during this first sales phase out of the 10 million available for the Olympic Games (3.4 million for the Paralympic events).

The lucky winners chosen by the draw which will close on January 31, 2023, will receive a letter in their mailbox notifying them of their sales slot, scheduled for February 15 to March 15.

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48 hours to compose your pack

The members of Club Paris 2024, nearly one million according to the organizers on this date, will be able to benefit from the first four days to choose their tickets, from February 15 to 18.

All successful applicants will be given a 48-hour slot to compose their Olympic three-session packs for all sports except for surfing in Tahiti, which has no ticket office.

The limit is set at six tickets per session and a maximum of 30 tickets.

Nearly 80% of the sessions will be open for sale, the remaining 20% ​​being made up of tickets for highly demanded finals (basketball, 100m in athletics, etc.).

The ticket office will be entirely digital to avoid fraud as much as possible.

For those who have not been lucky enough to be drawn, a second phase of sales, but this time individually, will begin in May 2023, again with a draw.

Tickets for the opening and closing ceremonies will also be available for sale during this second phase.

And finally, at the end of 2023, a last chance will be offered to try to come to the sites of the Olympic Games, with a final phase of unit sales.