PARIS, April 10 — The chief organiser of the Paris Olympics announced the release of new tickets today, while reassuring that everything was on track for “spectacular” Games in just over 100 days.

“Next week, on April 17 at 10am, we will put 250,000 new tickets on sale for all sports, all price categories and for all competition sites,” Tony Estanguet told reporters, urging interested fans to be “quick” because of high demand.