Olympics-Paris 2024 Organisers To Invite 222,000 Spectators To Opening Ceremony – News18

, PARIS: Free invitations to the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony shall be given to 222,000 spectators chosen by authorities, France’s Interior Minister mentioned on Tuesday.

Cities and different organising our bodies will every be given a variety of invitations to distribute. Guests should undergo a safety screening course of supervised by intelligence providers earlier than they will attend the occasion from the higher quays of the river Seine.

These 222,000 spots are along with the 104,000 paying spectators who will watch the ceremony from the decrease quays. The revised whole of 326,000 spectators is sort of half of the 600,000 that had been estimated to attend within the unique plan.

The minister mentioned he reserved the appropriate, if vital, to revise that quantity down once more.

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