This time it is not the price of the seats that is questioned, but their content. Eight athletics sessions offered for sale on the Paris 2024 Games ticketing site did not correspond to the planned program. Some buyers had chosen their session specifically to see the end of the decathlon, the 100m final or the pole vault competition, but may end up with quite different disciplines.
Tony Estanguet, the director of Paris 2024 acknowledged this error: "We realized that there were mistakes on eight athletics sessions. There are more than 760 sessions on sale on this second phase of ticketing. On these eight athletics sessions, there was a programming error because the calendar evolved and it was not updated.
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Athletes very uplifted
Some French athletes had launched the alert on their social networks. This is the case of Jimmy Gressier. The European five-kilometre record holder told him on his Instagram account: "Relatives have told me that they have bought tickets for a particular discipline, for example the 5,000m, and with the calendar error they end up with a session they did not want. They wanted to see the 5,000m and will end up having to see 200m or javelin.
»Alice Finot, the steeplechase rider of CA Montreuil 93 has added a layer, also targeting the price of places, "If they want to make expensive, let them at least do quality! Making a mistake in the ticket office timetable is unacceptable. " Tony Estanguet promised to "find a solution" and assures that the committee will "treat this with great attention and rigor."