Sport fans will be able to sign up from Wednesday for a chance to attend the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games – with tickets starting at $28 (\u00a320.80).<\/p>\n
Registration opens at 07:00 local time (15:00 GMT) for fans to enter a random ticket draw covering all events that will take place at the Games. The window will remain open until mid-March. <\/p>\n
If chosen, fans will be notified via email and will be given a time slot to purchase tickets in April. One million of those tickets will sell for $28, and about one-third are set to cost less than $100 (\u00a374.41).<\/p>\n
“These Games belong to everyone,” Casey Wasserman, the chairman of LA 2028 said on Tuesday. “These Games have to be affordable and inclusive.”<\/p>\n
The announcement of affordable ticket prices come after the price of tickets for the 2026 men’s football World Cup – which will also be hosted in the US, as well as Canada and Mexico – received some public criticism. <\/p>\n
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, LA officials said affordability and accessibility were central to their ticketing plan – and their hope that sport fans around the globe would be able to attend. <\/p>\n
Tickets for the 2024 Olympics in Paris started at $27.95 (\u00a320).<\/p>\n
A special early purchase window will also be open for residents in the Los Angeles area and Oklahoma City, where some Olympic Games are also being held.<\/p>\n
2028 will be the first time the Olympics will be held in the US since the 1996 Games in Atlanta. Los Angeles has twice hosted the Olympics – in 1932 and 1984 – and plans to use its already established infrastructure to host the Games. <\/p>\n
Event organisers, along with hundreds of Olympians and Paralympians, gathered at the LA Memorial Coliseum on Tuesday for a ceremonial lighting of the Olympic venue’s cauldron ahead of the opening of ticket registration. <\/p>\n