Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games Ticket Sales Sluggish

Rio 2016 organizers have announced this week that 500,000 tickets for the Olympic Games are now for sale online. The tickets, available through an online portal now available at rio2016.com/tickets, include passes for the Opening and Closing ceremonies, and several final events, including women’s basketball, men’s soccer and tennis.

The overall number of tickets available for the 2016 Games entirely is 7.5 million, just under a million less than the 6.6 million available at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. According to Rio organizers, just over half of the available tickets are priced at less than 70 reals ($26.77).

For anyone with scalping ideas, it has been announced that anyone caught reselling tickets distributed to the National Olympic Committees ‘will face fines up to 100 times the face value of the ticket.’

Overall, tickets to both the 2016 Olympics and Paralympics have been sluggish, especially for the latter. The IB Times is reporting that only 300,000 of the 3 million available Paralympic tickets have been sold domestically while about half of the Olympics tickets have been sold.

Said Mario Andrada, Rio 2016 Organizing Committee spokesperson, “We are a bit worried with the Paralympics. We have to educate, publicize. In the Paralympics, we still need to show that Brazil will be fighting for the top five on the medal chart.”

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anonimo
8 years ago

Typically carnival follows his life in Brazil up because cases of zika is northeastern Brazil region and not in Rio de Janeiro. journalistic sensationalism. Olympics will be held in winter in Brazil and the mosquitoes not play.

 Most cases of microcephaly was in northeastern Brazil representing 86% of cases of microcephaly, the places where most played transgenic mosquitoes, Were sites que had zika virus, but it shouldnt be the other way reduce mosquitoes cases and was not that happened. Northeastern Brazil is dry centuries from the time of colonial Brazil, but the mosquitoes will only play on a vast area of ​​water, something que northeastern Brazil is dry year. Africa has always had zika and never had any cases of… Read more »

Mark
8 years ago

Australian Trials for the Paralympics take place April 7th through 15th in Adelaide. At this time, according to Swimming Australia, the International Paralympic Committee will not have informed the Australian Paralympic Committee of the total amount of quota slots allocated for swimming. Why ever not? As a result, swimmers will not know if they have even made the team at their Paralympic Games selection meet.

How can the IPC seriously expect swimmers family and friends to organise travel to Rio from Australia to support their swimmers when trials for the event is so farcical?

Is it the same situation with the quota allocations in other countries or just Australia? I really hope this has nothing to do with… Read more »

James
8 years ago

Why am I not surprised?
When will Xavier Gonzalez and his team recognise the fact that no one is interested in watching an event where “athletes” are classified inappropriately at best and make a very poor job of mimicking disabilities at worst.
Until the cheating at classification is addressed and the IPC employ appropriate professionals to carry out classifications there will be ever diminishing interest in “Paralympics”.
Sir Phillip Craven and Xavier Gonzalez have both stated that intentional misrepresentation was witnessed at the IPC World Swimming Championships yet they take no action.
It is the genuine athletes who are just a subset of the participants in para sport that I feel sorry for.
In its… Read more »

Sam
8 years ago

My whole family was ready to book hotel, flight and ticket but we decided against it once we read that Brazil will not be ready on time for the games and even if they will, they water quality for the aquatic games will be cesspool-ish. I’d rather stay at home and watch on TV.

Bryan Breedon-Sharp
8 years ago

Have to watch on TV, can’t afford the flight, easy as that.

Billy
8 years ago

I’ll be watching the games on my TV at home. Best seat in the house!

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