(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
With two years to go from the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris
Olympic Games, organizers revealed 'Ouvrons Grand Les Jeux',
meaning 'Games Wide Open', as the shared slogan for the Paris
Olympic and Paralympic Games, Trend reports citing Xinhua .
'It is an invitation to the world to come and experience new
emotions together. Our Games are the commitments of new experiences
and big thrills,' the organizers said.
Paris will host the Summer Olympics for the third time in 2024,
which also marks the centenary of the last Paris Games in 1924. The
French capital was also the host city of the second edition of the
modern Olympic Games, in 1900.
The Games is scheduled to take place from July 26 to August 11
and athletes will compete in a total of 32 sports encompassing 329
events, and among these sports, breaking will make its Olympic
debut.
A provisional calendar of the Games was also released on Monday
as the first competition session starts on July 24, 2024, two days
before the opening ceremony. Notably, all the finals of the
swimming and athletics events will take place in the evenings, from
20:30 for swimming (with the exception of the last day from 18:30),
and from 19:00 for athletics.
As Paris 2024 aims to be the most gender-balanced Olympic Games
in history, the organizers have placed the women's competitions in
the spotlight.
For example, for the first time since table tennis became an
Olympic sport in Seoul 1988, a women's event (the women's team
final) will bring the table tennis program to a close in Paris on
August 10.
Over 13 million tickets will be sold for the Paris Olympic and
Paralympic Games, with nearly half of the tickets reserved for the
public will cost 50 euros or less.
Prices for competitions events range from 24 euros to a maximum
of 950 euros, as the highest part will only account for 0.5% of the
total volume of tickets to the general public.
'These prices, which are extremely affordable for an event the
size of the Olympic Games, have been made possible thanks to the
adoption of a special pricing structure: the high-price tickets,
which make up 15% of the tickets on sale to the general public,
will generate almost 50% of Paris 2024 ticketing revenue,' the
organizers said in a statement.
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