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Around 70,000 tickets for the champions' parade that marks the end of Paris 2024 were snapped up within an hour on Wednesday.
The event in the Champs-Élysées area is billed as the city’s final Olympic and Paralympic celebration and is due to take place down the famous avenue on Saturday (September 14).
Attendance at the event is free but pre-registration was required. Tickets became available on Wednesday and were all secured on Wednesday, according to RMC Sport. The number of tickets available per basket was capped at four and it took just an hour for all the places to be taken.
Around 30,000 spectators will be at the top of the Champs-Élysées for the parade from 4pm to 6pm local time before another 40,000 will see an official ceremony and artistic show at Place de l’Étoile from 6:30pm onwards.
Between 8,000 and 10,000 people will take part in the march.
“We’re going to try to apply the same ingredients to this day as we did for the four ceremonies, which means surprise, spectacular elements and perhaps above all sharing, as we tried to do for the first four,” said Paris 2024 director of ceremonies Thierry Reboul.
“Or even the first five, since we’re including Marseille [at the arrival of the Olympic Flame] with the same type of approach as we’ll be trying to do on Saturday.”
Once the parade is over, the Arc de Triomphe will host a ceremony honouring France’s Olympic and Paralympic athletes.
French President Emmanuel Macron will present each medallist and give them a governmental decoration.
As it stands, 182 Olympic athletes will take part including judoka Teddy Riner, France’s triumphant men’s rugby sevens team, and swimmer Léon Marchand.
There will also be at least 137 Paralympic athletes including sprinter Timothée Adolphe and judo’s Sandrine Martinet.
The ceremony will also see the rekindling of the flame of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
The parade comes just days after news that Paris 2024 had broken the record for Olympic and Paralympic ticket sales.
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