This Tuesday the sale of tickets for Rio 2016 started and in the first 15 minutes of the kickoff, the tickets for the opening and closing ceremonies were sold out, as reported by the Organizing Committee.
This is the third phase of the sales process and on this occasion tickets to different events of the Olympic Games could be purchased directly without depending on a lottery.
The slightly over two million tickets available online had a virtual waiting system to respect the access order to the website of interested users. They all had a high demand and reached a pace of 120,000 tickets in just one hour.
In addition to the first and last day of activities, the most sought-after tickets were those for the men's finals in soccer, basketball, handball, and the one hundred meters sprint in athletics.