[Other Sport] Paris 2024 Olympics & Paralympics ***Official Match Thread***

[4goals]

Had my window yesterday, managed to get tickets for 3 events spread over 2 days, total cost €200 but took a lot of effort to find those & most of the really cheap ones had gone/not available - Athletics, Table Tennis & Water Polo.

 

[hart's shirt]

No joy here yet with a 48 hour window.

Paris will be great - 100 years on after the 'Chariots of Fire' Olympics. And completely different from last year's UCL mayhem.

Watched the 2003 World Athletic Championships in the SdF before getting to Athens 2004 to see 7 of the 9 GB gold medals won.

Just hope I can get that confirmation email through soon.

 

[Sirnormangall]

I’ve registered to apply for tickets, but thought I’d wait to see the outcome of any potential boycott re Russian and Belarus athletes being allowed to participate. Cost of tickets seems to be beyond most people. I’d imagine accommodation costs will be similarly prohibitive - has anyone looked into that yet?

 

[TheJasperCo]

I signed up on a whim for this round of the ballot. Not been picked yet. Fortunately I have no family commitments so if my number's called, the total cost won't be too astronomical.

 

[PeterT]

I’ve registered to apply for tickets, but thought I’d wait to see the outcome of any potential boycott re Russian and Belarus athletes being allowed to participate. Cost of tickets seems to be beyond most people. I’d imagine accommodation costs will be similarly prohibitive - has anyone looked into that yet?

I had accommodation booked through Vrbo, all paid for at a great price. Then the owner contacted me to say her brother wanted it and was coming over from the US so sorry and here’s your money back. Vrbo don’t guarantee anything unless it’s within a month of the stay and just sent me a list or completely unsuitable and more expensive alternatives. I imagine this will be happening a lot.

 

[Billy in Bristol]

One year to the start...I work with a big group of GB Olympians looking to raise £1m for good causes...They have raised £569k already through good causes auctioning off places on experience days hosted by the Athletes.

If you can spare the price of a pint, we can crowdfund places for Sussex based good causes to auction off and multiply the heck out of your donation.

Full details on www.crowdfunder.co.uk/gbcharitydays

Or here


Message me if you have any queries.

 

[South Stand Bonfire]

Imagine the faff if Albion got into Europe- Slovenia or Lithuania on a Thursday night ….

This post just deserves to be bounced!,

 

[Beach Hut]

Really looking to this however not sure if I heard it correctly on BBC Breakfast that the opening ceremony is not in a stadium but on and around the Seine

 

[nicko31]

I had accommodation booked through Vrbo, all paid for at a great price. Then the owner contacted me to say her brother wanted it and was coming over from the US so sorry and here’s your money back. Vrbo don’t guarantee anything unless it’s within a month of the stay and just sent me a list or completely unsuitable and more expensive alternatives. I imagine this will be happening a lot.

I’m going but will stay way out of City. The prices is Paris even now are just stupid

 

[South Stand Bonfire]

Really looking to this however not sure if I heard it correctly on BBC Breakfast that the opening ceremony is not in a stadium but on and around the Seine

Are you going?

 

[Beach Hut]

Are you going?

No, sadly not

All pennies hopefully being spent on the Albion European Tour

 

[South Stand Bonfire]

No, sadly not

For the three events we were looking at for 3/4 days (gym, trampoline and another) it was going to cost us around 240 Euros each per each 2 hour session. Travel and accommodation etc on top of that. We are going to splurge it on a two week hol in Feb in S Africa instead!

 

[PeterT]

This post just deserves to be bounced!,

I am hopeful that you did realise I was taking the **** with that post!

 

[Bry Nylon]

Well, it will be upon us this week!

Really looking forward to getting into this, especially as the +1hr time difference makes it 'viewer friendly' here in the UK.

Particularly looking forward to see if Keely Hodgkinson can go one better than the 800m silver she got in Tokyo and bring home the gold.

 

[essbee1]

Well, it will be upon us this week!

Really looking forward to getting into this, especially as the +1hr time difference makes it 'viewer friendly' here in the UK.

Particularly looking forward to see if Keely Hodgkinson can go one better than the 800m silver she got in Tokyo and bring home the gold.

I can't see anyone in the world beating her to be honest.

 

[Krafty]

The Opening Ceremony is on Friday but there will be a few events preceding that.

Football and Rugby Sevens will be on Wednesday. The first event will be football with two matches at 14:00: Argentina vs Morocco & Uzbekistan vs Spain.

On Thursday, we have Football, Rugby Sevens, Archery and Handball. Team GB's first involvement will be in Archery (Women's Individual Ranking Round) at 08:30.

Friday sees only Shooting with three events at 08:00, 09:00, and 10:45. The Opening Ceremony starts at 19:00.

 

[nicko31]

What amazes with this Olympics is the availability of tickets on the official ticketing site

Take Athletics on Friday 2nd...


Women's 5000m Round 1
Women's 800m Round 1
4 x 400m Relay Mixed Round 1
Women's Triple Jump Qualification
Women's Discus Throw Qualification
Men's Shot Put Qualification
Men's Decathlon High Jump
Men's Decathlon 400m
Men's 10,000m Final

Euro95 a ticket. This ain't London 2012, the French haven't sold out the games

 

[Han Solo]

Looking forward to this having seen NONE of the last Olympics... just didn't feel the hype.

 

[essbee1]

What amazes with this Olympics is the availability of tickets on the official ticketing site

Take Athletics on Friday 2nd...


Women's 5000m Round 1
Women's 800m Round 1
4 x 400m Relay Mixed Round 1
Women's Triple Jump Qualification
Women's Discus Throw Qualification
Men's Shot Put Qualification
Men's Decathlon High Jump
Men's Decathlon 400m
Men's 10,000m Final

Euro95 a ticket. This ain't London 2012, the French haven't sold out the games

I'd have given my right arm to get tickets for that at London. Is the fact that most of Paris shove off on holidays
during august to blame maybe?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Well, it will be upon us this week!

Really looking forward to getting into this, especially as the +1hr time difference makes it 'viewer friendly' here in the UK.

Particularly looking forward to see if Keely Hodgkinson can go one better than the 800m silver she got in Tokyo and bring home the gold.

The BBC got us into the mood yesterday with Chariots of Fire, where Liddell & Abrahams won their medals, in Paris, 100 years ago.