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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Sean Ingle

Coe sounds warning over Paris 2024 athletics prices with tickets up to €990

Phryges, the official mascot for the 2024 Games, displayed in Paris’s official store.
Phryges, the official mascot for the 2024 Games, displayed in Paris’s official store. Photograph: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images

The World Athletics president, Sebastian Coe, has expressed concern over ticket prices for the Olympic Games next year, warning they will price out genuine fans and lead to empty seats.

In an unusually punchy intervention Coe, who ran the London 2012 Games, said he had spoken to Paris organisers to stress that “full stadia are absolutely a prerequisite” for the biggest Olympic sport.

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