Tickets to the general public have officially go on sale for the 2024 U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials.
USA Swimming confirmed that all-session tickets went on sale on Feb. 1, exactly 500 days out from the start of the competition in June 2024.
Note that Section 116 is the starting end.
500 days until we take #SwimTrials24 to @LucasOilStadium 😎
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— USA Swimming (@USASwimming) February 1, 2023
The Trials will run from June 15-23, 2024, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
There will be a total of 17 sessions (eight prelims, nine finals) at the 2024 Olympic Trials, an uptick compared to the usual 15 after Paris 2024 unveiled a new nine-day swimming schedule earlier this year.
Three-day ticket packages and group sales will be offered to the public starting June 15, 2023, while information on single-day and single-session tickets will be available at a later date, USA Swimming said.
Members of the U.S. National Team, their families and coaches were given early access to all-session tickets on Nov. 28, and on Dec. 1, USA Swimming, U.S. Masters Swimming and Indiana Sports Corps members were given access.
USA Swimming’s announcement Wednesday also noted that the capacity at Lucas Oil Stadium will be 32,000, marking the largest crowd ever for an indoor swim meet, surpassing the 25,000 that attended the 1936 Olympics in Berlin (according to the International Swimming Hall of Fame).
“The 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Swimming will be an experience unlike any before hosted on American soil,” USA Swimming President and CEO Tim Hinchey III said.
“This will be the fastest, largest, most exciting showcase of the best athletes in America. We are thrilled to partner with Indianapolis to provide extensive fan experiences outside Lucas Oil Stadium with the Toyota AquaZone, USA Swimming Live on Georgia Street, and USA Swimming House presented by OneAmerica. The close proximity of downtown hotels, the incredible hospitality of local businesses, and the unwavering spirit of the hundreds of volunteers helping us host Trials will make this the ultimate celebration of our sport.”
Next year’s Trials will mark the 100-year anniversary of Indianapolis hosting the 1924 U.S. Olympic Trials before to the Olympic Games in Paris.
“In Indianapolis, we are known for hosting major sporting events, and the innovation we’ve been able to dream up with USA Swimming to host these Trials in Lucas Oil Stadium makes this a must-see event,” Indiana Sports Corp President Patrick Talty said.
“With the location and accessibility of Indy, swimming fans and families will get the chance to experience history, and our community could not be more excited for this opportunity.”
The USA Swimming Foundation is also offering all-inclusive packages and VIP tickets.
How many teams are competing for qualification?
What if you have a swimmer who qualifies for 1 event. Will parents be able to purchase a single session ticket ?
Yes and no. Parents will be able to buy single session tickets like everyone else (we expect there will be tickets left when single session become available). But I don’t know of any special program for parents of swimmers.
There will be an active resale market for single session tickets, though.
Are there mechanisms to prevent re-sellers from buying all the 17-session tix and splitting them up into 1-session tix at higher prices, and no official single session tix available later? Is it a pass instead of a tickets? Same with 3 day package that, according to swimswam don’t go on sale until June? All I want is 1 or 2 sessions, but am nervous, especially with Ticketmaster involved, that I’ll never even get an opportunity to buy.
Unclear.
I know it feels risky, but I promise you that there will be an active resale market. If not in advance, there will definitely be tickets for sale (or free) when you arrive in Indy. Even with an 8 day meet in Omaha, people hand us dozens of unused tickets every year and ask us to give them away to anybody who needs them.
The manager of Addy’s (the bar we camped out at in Omaha) got to go sit in the VIP section for one session, with free food and drinks. It was amazing.
If you break the prices down, it’s only $30-$180 per session, which isn’t unreasonable. Having to wait months for single session passes to be sold sucks, but at least it’s not impossible to afford to watch your kid swim the 100 back heats.
Yeah I think what it comes down to is that there are very, very, very few people who are going to watch 17 sessions of swimming. So many, in fact, that it’s going to be difficult to resell all of those unused sessions. It’s going to be a buyer’s resale market – much higher supply than demand.
So you sort of have to roll the unused sessions prices into the used sessions to get a “real cost” estimate.
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How about you provide your USA Registration ID and if you have a premium membership in 2024 you get a discount and first dips to the leftover best seats.
Give the people that pay the memberships and keep the sport rolling in the age group side a shot to afford some of these tickets.
I get what they are doing. Making the meet a big event to make the sport bigger. Great idea, can’t fault them on that. I do wonder how many swimming families can afford travel and these ticket prices.
Realistically, most swimming families can afford travel and these ticket prices. They may not want to pay these prices. They may want to spend that money elsewhere. But the demographics of swimming are not such that most families are unable to pull together 3000$ to send their family to this meet.
And USA Swimming knows that.
What I can’t figure out is, who was asking for this. Who was asking them to put it in a football stadium and jack up ticket prices. They’re surely going to claim that they’re not making more money, that they’re doing this “for swimming.” I was bored of Omaha of course, but not at 4x the ticket costs.
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I was excited to see them try something new and different. I commend the effort, should be fun.
Gotta try it to see if it works.
The initial prices are really high. My guess is day/session tickets will be cheaper.
With these prices I better go straight to Paris
Priced like the NBA Finals
I am going to have to sell a kidney or an organ to pay for these.