Four million applications were received for an online lottery where winners get to buy tickets for next year’s Paris Olympics, the local organizing committee says. They hope to sell 1.3 million tickets.
Tony Estanguet, president of the Paris 2024 Olympics organizing committee, rides a boat down the Seine River on the route that will be used for the opening ceremony of the Games, in Paris, Friday, April 14, 2023. Officials say more than 100 boats will be used to transport thousands of athletes in the opening ceremony on July 26, 2024, which is expected to draw as many as 600,000 spectators along the banks of the river.
PARIS — Four million applications were received for an online lottery where winners get to buy tickets for next year’s Paris Olympics, the local organizing committee said Friday.
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