LOS ANGELES.- More than four million tickets for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games were sold out around the world during this month’s first shopping window, organizers announced Thursday.
Ticket buyers came from 85 countries and the main sales outside USA they arrived from United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico and Japan.
“The response to our initial sale was simply historic,” he said. Reynolds Hooverexecutive director of LA28. “The fans, both here and far away, have spoken: the world wants to be part of the LA28 Games.”
The next opportunity to purchase tickets for the 2028 Olympics will be in August and people will be able to register until July 22.
Fans will be able to purchase up to twelve tickets for Olympic events and up to twelve tickets for Olympic football matches, which are not included in the Olympic maximum of twelve tickets.
According to organizers, 95% of all tickets available for less than $100 were sold in the first wave. The women’s sessions outsold the men’s sessions by 93% compared to 88%.
Gymnastics tickets sold the fastest. All those available for the new Olympic disciplines of flag football, lacrosse, softball and squash were sold out.
Former Ivorian footballer sentenced
The Ivorian former footballer Abdoulaye Traoréchampion with his team in the Africa Cup of Nations 1992, was sentenced to three years in prison for rape, an association for the defense of women’s rights in this African country confirmed this Thursday.
Traoré, nicknamed “Ben Badi”, is 59 years old and was once an iconic striker for the Ivorian club Asec Mimosas and the selection of Ivory Coast.
He also played for several European clubs, including Sporting Braga Portuguese and Metz French.
“Ben Badi was sentenced (on Wednesday) to 36 months in prison, to the payment of 15 million CFA francs (about $27,000) to the victim, to ten years of deprivation of his civic rights and a ban on appearing in (the city of) Bouaké for five years,” announced the Ivorian Women’s Rights League.
