How difficult is it for athletes to get tickets for their own matches? Esmée Böbner and Zoé Vergé-Dépré give an insight. These are the splinters from the 11th Olympic Day.
Ticket search
The athletes in Paris can't just concentrate on their events. A bigger problem for many is getting tickets for family members and fans. Beach volleyball players Esmée Böbner and Zoé Vergé-Dépré, for example, are looking for 13 tickets for their quarter-final session on Tuesday via social media. The athletes can officially buy a maximum of two tickets for their matches from the organizers - at the hefty price of 175 euros per ticket.
Within their own four walls
For many Swiss athletes, the Games in Paris feel like a small home game. But none more so than Albane Valenzuela. The 26-year-old professional golfer lives in the Parisian suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine in her own four walls, or rather in those of her mother. The New York-born cosmopolitan's parents live in the USA and also in France. As a result, she is only 30 km away from the Golf National, where the Olympic golf tournament will be held from Wednesday to Saturday. Her father is Mexican, her mother French, but Valenzuela points to the Swiss cross on her chest and says, beaming: "I'm Swiss at heart."
