{"id":15601,"date":"2024-07-12T13:47:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T13:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=15601"},"modified":"2024-07-12T13:47:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T13:47:21","slug":"paris-olympics-sets-record-with-8-6-million-tickets-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=15601","title":{"rendered":"Paris Olympics sets record with 8.6 million tickets sold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/FB_IMG_1720791813510.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/FB_IMG_1720791813510.jpg 720w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/FB_IMG_1720791813510-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>PARIS: The Paris Olympics already have one gold medal secured ahead of the start, with 8.6 million tickets sold \u2013 a record for any Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are at 8.6 million tickets for the Olympics and over one million for the Paralympics,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paris organizers expect the total number of participants to rise to 10 million for the sporting extravaganza, which runs from July 26 to August 11, with another 3.4 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS: The Paris Olympics already have one gold medal secured ahead of the start, with 8.6 million tickets sold \u2013 a record for any Games. \u201cWe are at 8.6 million&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":15602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1265,1266],"class_list":["post-15601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-pairs-olympics-2024","tag-world-olympics-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15603,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15601\/revisions\/15603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}