2 Million Tickets Sold for Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

out of the 2.5 million tickets available we already sold around 2 million tickets so that's uh that's good we know that we will continue to sell tickets over the the next days and probably till the end of the games it's been the case for the Olympics we we sold tickets till the last uh the last day even the last hour uh and and that's been quite uh exciting for us to see that fans till the end were excited and and really want to take the last opportunities so we can expect it will be also the case with the launch of the opening ceremony with the launch of the first competitions uh we can expect that there will be also new fans interested in being part of of the of the Paralympics uh at the end so there are still around 500,000 tickets available in uh many sports so don't hesitate to to seize those opportunities these arst are here to compete they are right Rivals they want you know the 10th of the second the 1 cm they want the small difference and still they live together in the paralympic village a place that is absolutely accessible uh under the same roof in peace and why the world cannot be sorry like that outside of the par Olympic Village outside of the par Olympic Games outside of the Paris 2024 uh uh umbrella so in that sense yes it's disappointing that if we give persons with disability an opportunity they can Excel but we don't want that only sport that's why we say change starts with sport but we want this in the boardroom in the classroom we want this in the communities we want this in every different Society so if we want change to start with sport but goes uh beyond that that being said uh we want them to focus on that focus on their performance as focus on in their responsibility as persons with disability who who are in the most important platform on the planet for person with disability to advance the agenda the human rights agenda of persons with disability and despite what is going on in different parts of the world to focus on that uh it's just disgraceful that in 2024 we are in that uh we are seeing what we seeing in the news in terms of conflicts around the world in terms of polarization in terms of hostility in terms of basically people just don't being able to live together