Cologne Rhine Ruhr targets Olympic record with 17.6 million tickets

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2026-08-28

Dusseldorf (dpa) - Cologne Rhine Ruhr's Olympic bid plans to break a world record - in ticket sales. Germany will choose Cologne Rhine Ruhr, Munich or Berlin as its bidder for the 2036, 2040 or 2044 Olympics and Paralympics next month. "With Cologne Rhine-Ruhr, they would be the biggest Games of all time. 17.6 million tickets - that is around 3.5 million tickets more than in our initial plans and more than at any Olympic and Paralympic Games bef......

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