00:00Out of the 2.5 million tickets available, we already sold around 2 million tickets.
00:06So that's good.
00:08We know that we will continue to sell tickets over the next days and probably till the end
00:14of the Games.
00:15It's been the case for the Olympics.
00:16We sold tickets till the last day, even the last hour, and that's been quite exciting
00:24for us to see that fans, till the end, were excited and really wanted to take the last
00:31opportunities.
00:32So we can expect it will be also the case with the launch of the Opening Ceremony, with
00:36the launch of the first competitions.
00:39We can expect that there will be also new fans interested in being part of the Paralympics
00:46at the end.
00:47So there are still around 500,000 tickets available in many sports.
00:54So don't hesitate to seize those opportunities.
00:58These athletes are here to compete.
00:59They are rivals.
01:01They want the tenth of the second, the one centimetre.
01:03They want the small difference.
01:06And still, they live together in the Paralympic Village, a place that is absolutely accessible,
01:12under the same roof, in peace.
01:15And why the world cannot be like that, outside of the Paralympic Village, outside of the
01:19Paralympic Games, outside of the Paris 2024 umbrella?
01:23So in that sense, yes, it's disappointing that if we give persons with disability an
01:27opportunity, they can excel.
01:28But we don't want that only in sport.
01:31That's why we say change starts with sport, but we want this in the boardroom, in the
01:35classroom.
01:36We want this in the communities.
01:37We want this in every different society.
01:40So we want change to start with sport, but goes beyond that.
01:46That being said, we want them to focus on that, focus on their performances, focus in
01:51their responsibility as persons with disability, who are in the most important platform on
01:56the planet for persons with disability to advance the agenda, the human rights agenda
02:01of persons with disability, and despite what is going on in different parts of the world,
02:06to focus on that.
02:07It's just disgraceful that in 2024, we are seeing what we're seeing in the news, in terms
02:14of conflicts around the world, in terms of polarisation, in terms of hostility, in terms
02:19of basically people just not being able to live together.
