The Paralympics open in 100 days. Paris organizers are launching a campaign to boost ticket sales

PARIS (AP) — With 100 days till the Paralympics start, Paris organizers are delivering a message from the athletes in a bid to spice up ticket gross sales: I’m not lacking something, besides you.

The countdown marketing campaign for the Aug 28-Sept. 8 Paralympic Video games begins Monday. It options three Paralympic athletes, every of them alone in an empty stadium. The marketing campaign slogan — “Il ne me manque rien, sauf vous” (I’m not lacking something, besides you) — is a rallying name to get individuals to come back alongside and watch them competing.

The French athletes featured within the marketing campaign are Arnaud Assoumani, an extended leap and triple leap specialist who received gold on the 2008 Video games in Beijing; wheelchair tennis participant Pauline Déroulède, and blind soccer participant Gaël Rivière who was a European championship winner two years in the past. He performs at membership stage for Bondy Cécifoot Membership — in the identical suburb the place France star Kylian Mbappé grew up.

Nationwide broadcaster France Télévisions will present the marketing campaign in a bid to lift consciousness and — finally — enhance gross sales. Up to now, 900,000 of the 2.8 million tickets have been offered.

A complete of 4,400 athletes will participate within the Paralympics. Tickets can be found from 15 euros ($16) for monitor and discipline periods at Stade de France, wheelchair tennis at Roland Garros, or blind soccer on the foot of the Eiffel Tower. The finals value from 25 ($27) euros and it’s 45 euros ($49) to observe the closing ceremony.

Ticket gross sales may escalate as soon as posters begin showing round Paris, with organizers aiming to lift consciousness and improve fan engagement and solidarity.

There shall be 651 posters dotted across the metropolis, 972 on the subway and an additional 2,520 on the perimeters of buses.

On Tuesday, 4 Paralympic athletes will stroll up the famed steps on the Cannes Movie Pageant together with Paris 2024 Olympic head Tony Estanguet.

Of the tickets offered to date, organizers stated 300,000 have been purchased by the state and 150,000 by the Worldwide Olympic Committee and Nationwide Paralympic Committee.

Organizers haven’t launched particulars for the quantity of tickets offered for the opening ceremony, which takes place alongside a piece of the famed Champs-Élysées.

Paul McCartney has let the music “We All Stand Collectively” be utilized in a promotional movie for the Worldwide Paralympic Committee.

The Paralympics can have a file 164 broadcasters worldwide masking 549 occasions throughout 22 sports activities.

The 12-day occasion follows the July 26-Aug. 11 Olympics in Paris.

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