Paris Paralympics ticket sales exceed 2.3 million

Ticket sales of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games have reached 2.3 million after the weekend, the organizers announced here on Monday, reported Xinhua.

"The great news is that ticket sales are continuing to fly. We have now reached the milestone of 2.3 million tickets sold for the Paralympic Games. It's a success for all of us," said Anne Descamps, Executive Director of Communication of the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee.

The London 2012 set the tickets record at 2.7 million for the Paralympic Games. Craig Spence, Chief Brand & Communications Officers of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), said, "I'm not sure we're going to get there. London was 2.7 million, Paris is on 2.3m, so we're 400,000 away. I think we'll be looking at just over 2.5m."

"We welcomed more than 570,000 ticket holders to our venues over Saturday and Sunday. We had almost 90,000 ticket holders at the Stade de France over two sessions of athletics. It was also fantastic to welcome the return of our iconic Eiffel Tower Stadium where the stands were full, with around 9,000 spectators for each session of the blind football," Descamps said.

Descamps said 192,000 tickets have been purchased by the French government for children to have a chance to experience the Paralympics.

"Today (Monday) more than 35,000 students will have the opportunity to watch sport, including para rowing, para swimming, blind football, wheelchair tennis and wheelchair basketball. Many more children all over France will be able to celebrate the Paralympic Games and discover para sport through the network of more than 400 Paris 2024 Mini Clubs which will open from today," she added.