Maybe it’s time to pray to Christ the Redeemer.
With just over four months remaining until the cauldron is lit in Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic stadium, Brazilian officials are grappling with some epically poor ticket sales.
A spokesperson for the Rio 2016 organizing committee confirmed to Agence France-Presse on Saturday that only 50% of tickets for South America’s first ever Summer Olympics have been snapped up.
The figures are even worse for the Paralympics, with only 12% of seats sold.
Brazil’s new acting minister of sport, Ricardo Leyser, told the Folha newspaper the government is considering buying tickets, especially to the Paralympics, that will then be distributed to local schools.