Paris Olympics tickets viewed as too pricey, poll finds | More sports News – Times of India
PARIS: Around four out of five French people think tickets for the 2024 Paris Olympics are too expensive, a poll showed on Sunday, underlining growing public frustration with organisers over the issue.A total 82 percent of respondents said that tickets for the games were "not accessible in terms of price", according to a survey from the Odoxa polling group for the RTL media group and sports betting firm Winamax.Around the same proportion of people (79 percent) found the ticketing process to be "complicated," the survey found.The president of the 2024 Paris organising committee Tony Estanguet has been forced on the defensive in the last fortnight after the first major release of tickets to the public under a lottery system.Successful applicants have been obliged to buy places for three e...