Some 910,000 people ¡ª or about a quarter of all domestic ticket holders ¡ª will lose their tickets to this summer¡¯s Olympics and Paralympics after the results of a lottery are announced in early July, the Tokyo Organising Committee said Wednesday.
Ticket holders will be reduced to a total of 2.72 million, organizers said, and the results of the lottery will be announced on July 6 through the organizing committee¡¯s ticket purchasing site.
¡°It¡¯s regrettable that we have no choice but to ask ticket holders to partake in another lottery,¡± Tokyo 2020 ticketing director Hidenori Suzuki said during a news conference on Wednesday.
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