Organizers remain confident they will sell out all of the remaining tickets in the final 78 days until the Olympic Games.
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Tickets for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies have also been specially designed.
“We are still receiving a lot of demand from other territories, and when possible we are giving them more tickets”, he said.
“Work on designing the tickets began in December 2014 and consulted the directors of the ceremonies”. This will probably be the most important preparation for us as we will be acclimatizing as well as getting over any jetlag that we might have right before the event.
This comes as organisers attempt to raise the profile of the Games among the Brazilian nation at a time of political and economic woe.
“This group has had some successes already, one of these was the indictment of 10 people who were reselling tickets illegally over social media”.
This follows the selling of fresh batches which had been kept in reserve.
Pakistan’s Olympics contingent will also be its smallest ever as it is for the first time in history that national hockey team failed to qualify for the quadrennial sports spectacle.
“The biggest remaining tickets are for the preliminaries”, Ferreti said.
Ticket director Donovan Ferretti also unveiled the ticket designs on Friday, saying new technology will make them hard to counterfeit.
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When presenting the tickets, Rio 2016 President Carlos Nuzman remarked that these are the tickets for “the first Games in South America, so we wanted to do something differently”.
