100,000 Tickets For Olympic Games

Tickets for sold-out sessions and for the Rio 2016 Opening and Closing Ceremonies will be part of a new batch of 100,000 seats for next month’s Olympic Games due to be released on Thursday (July 21), organisers have announced.

Other events which will be included in the batch – the last big amount of tickets to go on sale for the Games – feature medal matches in volleyball, football and basketball, as well as previously unavailable sessions in swimming and tennis. It comes as a result of broadcast plans being finalised, with “some of the seating areas previously set aside for the use of equipment being freed up”.

This had made more tickets available, according to the Organising Committee. It follows a controversial plan where seating at some venues has been reduced as part of wholesale budget cuts. The latest batch will be sold online and in Rio 2016 offices across the city, including at the Maracanã Stadium, which is due to host the Opening Ceremony on August 5. They will also go on sale in cities such as São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Brasilia, Manaus and Salvador.