Some 910,000 people — or about a quarter of all domestic ticket holders — 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.