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Congrats on getting the windows. Have fun shopping. I will be interested to see what kind of choices you have.

Good luck tomorrow (or in the days ahead). It will be very interesting to see how many new tickets will be released. There HAS to be additional seats available. As for the secondary market, it's a great question but i don't see why they would restrict somebody at that point. By the way, although people around here did get the "sorry, you're out" emails, they all came the first day. Everybody who signed up, and did not get that bad email the first day, eventually got in.

So, all in all we did ok, given the constraints of both budget and access. We definitely got lucky in some cases. Eleven sessions, including four medal sessions. I don't know that we will keep all of them, or maybe get even more, once the secondary market opens, but we sure have a lot to look forward to.

We got the cheapest available fencing final tickets and those were $376. The athletics morning session was $220, and I am pretty sure we got the cheapest available. Mind you, there were other ticket prices below these but they are always the first to go.

My wife's email came through, and we had a second window today. We bought 2 tix each for equestrian (dressage final), fencing (final), rugby (womens prelim). archery (mixed team prelim), athletics (morning prelim), and badminton (prelim). Now we just need a bank loan to feed ourselves in the meantime. I am sort of glad we had a limit.

Absolutely. The person that we are pooling tickets with still hasn't heard anything about being in or out of the drops, so we are hopeful that we will have access to another drop and have some luck with the sports that we didn't get. But you definitely have to move fast. Though we are quite happy with the tickets we got, I would hate to admit how much we paid to get some of them. The only opening ceremony tickets that were left by the time we got there (literally 2 minutes after the window opened) were $2600. I love the Olympics but that was a little much.

For each event, there are two ways of answering the ticket price question. There is the overall range of prices, and the tickets that are available now. When your window opens, there may be more availability than what I am seeing now. But availability also diminshed rapidly as I was making my purchases. But FWIW, here are the overall ranges, bearing in mind that the bottom tiers are all sold out, at least for the time being.

Well it's a dog-eat-dog world out there. We got 2 tix for women's volleyball final, 2 for preliminary round of mens platform diving, and 4 for a beach volleyball preliminary session, 4 for mens basketball prelim doubleheader and two for a prelim women's football match. Opening ceremonies were sold out, as were gymnastics finals, and a lot more with only the very very expensive tix remaining. Lots of bugs and glitches too. Took three tries to get it right. @clemsonbeav I will get to your pricing questions shortly.

The email said we would get another message today with our link to the window, maybe that has a pricing preview. Regardless, I will find your pricing info as best I can. If they don't shut us out after we buy our 12 tickets then I can gather this up at my leisure, so no problem.

I don't a comprehensive answer but my memory is that there were two sports in Paris 2024 where US men outdid the women, and a bit surprisingly at that: Water polo, where the men got the bronze and women did not make the podium, upending years of being a dominant power; and Rowing, where the Mens 4 dominated the field and the Mens 8 got a bronze, and again the women were shut out. Up to 2024 I think the women's crews consistently out-medaled the men. As far as why, I think, yeah, that other countries don't fund womens sports as seriously.

I am in! Window opens Friday 10am pacific. I am so excited. Must temper this with the recognition that a lot of stuff that I want will be sold out already/

Probably. Pretty subtle, but well done. A better one would have been Phelps coming out of retirement.

Nothing so far, though I did read that some people yesterday got emails saying you're not in the draw, and I didn't get one of those either. Keep hope alive. And it's April Fools day so nobody better prank me with a fake email.

Speculation that the swimming sessions will be reversed, as in Beijing, with finals in the morning. And for the same reason, to appeal to the other side of the Pacific. Though I don't see how they can do this now that tickets are being sold. https://swimswam.com/ioc-is-planning-morning-finals-for-los-angeles-2028-olympic-games/

We got another update to the ticket buying process. It was known already that each email would be limited to 12 tickets in the upcoming drops, but we now learn that football is not included in that limit, and we will be able to purchase up to 12 extra tickets for that sport. As we live halfway between downtown LA and downtown San Diego we will definitely get some seats for the July 11 matches in SD. But that's assuming we get a slot in this first draw. Not even that is guaranteed. We find out sometime between March 31 and April 6. Draws open up on April 8. Also the in-house secondary market will not open up until early 2027.

Wikipedia published the IAAF's exact timetable for LA28, so the medal order can be refined for those events:

I asked chatGPT to list the differences between V2 and V3. It spat back 250 event changes. Most were innocuous textual differences in the event description, but still...

But still holding firm on the W 100m 3 (or 4) races in one day.

Besides the radical new football schedule, there was a bit of clarification of the tennis schedule. The women's singles medal matches will be during the day on July 27, and the men's doubles in the evening. July 28 will see the men's singles during the day and women's doubles in the evening. Bit of an odd schedule there, actually.

New schedule posted. https://la28.org/content/dam/latwentyeight/competition-schedule-imagery/uploaded-march-16-v-3-0/LA28OlympicGamesCompetitionScheduleByEventV3.0.pdf

Ok, that makes sense.

So there is no continental restrictions on the qualification?

I am in Southern California, where I also teach. Mad for the Olympics and super-crazed for them to be here in 2028. These games will be fun too. I don't post much but pleased to have my status raised to "senior member"..

If you watch NBC's preview, you would think USA is going to win all the medals. Probably going to be short of that, but agree the prospects are good.

It was strange... talked to several people and all had the same experience of getting to the front of the line and then being put at the back of a second line. BTW meant to compliment you on the excel layout of the TV schedule