Organizers release an additional 400,000 tickets for 2024 Paris Olympics

Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Organizers have made an additional 400,000 tickets available for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, officials have announced, and they are encouraging spectators to buy them as holiday gifts.

"[With the ticket sale taking place] just a few weeks before Christmas, this is a unique opportunity to place tickets under your Christmas tree," said Michaël Aloïsio, the deputy general director of Paris 2024.

The tickets are scheduled to go on sale Nov. 30 at 10 a.m. Central European TIme or 4 a.m. EST.

"Olympic tickets are very rare so it's important to be ready on 30 November at 10 a.m. CET. The tickets will sell out very quickly," Aloïsio said.

The tickets will be available for all the Olympic sports and the Opening and Closing ceremonies, which will take place on the banks of the River Seine. Prices start at about $100 each. As part of the release, more tickets are now available for events that had been sold out.

Perhaps the most sought after will be tickets to artistic gymnastics events featuring Simone Biles. As part of this release, more of those will be available.

In the first round of tickets sales, buyers had to enter a lottery and hope their name was drawn. This time, there is no draw. Everyone has the same chance to buy their limit of 30 tickets, which could accelerate the pace of sales.

There will be 6,000 additional tickets available for swimming events at the Paris La Défense Arena, and 30,000 new tickets will go on sale for Olympic football matches

Another 30,000 tickets will be sold for various "athletic events," including the men's and women's decathlon, the women's triple jump, and mixed relays, among other events.

Organizers are also making 37,000 additional tickets available for basketball games.

"See the new US Dream team and more in Lille, starting at [($100]," Aloïsio said in the release.

There will also be tickets for judo, tennis and so-called urban sports, which include breaking, skateboarding, and 3 on 3 basketball.

Organizers said tennis tickets, where spectators will see "Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Carlos Alcaraz or Iga Świątek, start as low as the equivalent of about $50.

Ticket prices for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies range between just over $45 U.S. to a little over $600.

"It's one of your last chances to purchase tickets," Aloïsio said.