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A million free Paris Olympics tickets to go to locals in bid for inclusive Games

The headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics Organising Committee in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, pictured on 28 March 2024. © AFP / JOEL SAGET

Starting in April, around one million free tickets for the 2024 Paris Olympics and Paralympics will be handed out to local young people, amateur athletes, people with disabilities and others in a bid to broaden access to the Games. It comes after criticism that tickets on sale to the public were beyond most budgets.

The free tickets will be shared between the neighbourhoods and cities across France that are hosting Olympic events, according to the organising committee Cojop.

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