Olympic Tickets

[oracleslave]

We applied for about £600 worth. Swimming, track, tennis and gymnastics if memory serves.

£106 went out of the account, no idea what for as yet.

[doodab]

The whole thing strikes me as a bit of a shambles.

[Zippy]

There is a loop around box hill, which I quite fancy going to watch. It also goes near our house when it leaves Richmond.



Where is it? Greenwich?

Can't please everybody all the time...

Greenwich - capacity 50,000. LOCOG could have got another £10 million + by having it somewhere else.

A picnic in Richmond sounds good

[Churchill]

Ooh fingers crossed for the closing ceremony. And at least we got something eh?

Anyone planning on going to the Paralympic games?

Not unless I end up in a wheelchair, nope.

[mudskipper]

Blimey - good to hear people have got stuff. Hubby applied for nearly £6K (including a few he didn't expect to get - opening/closing/100m final, but lots of smaller events too) but didn't get any. I applied for a couple of the heats, nothing either. Very disappointed.

[Zippy]

Blimey - good to hear people have got stuff. Hubby applied for nearly £6K (including a few he didn't expect to get - opening/closing/100m final, but lots of smaller events too) but didn't get any. I applied for a couple of the heats, nothing either. Very disappointed.

Bummer! Good luck with the second round.

[SueEllen]

Blimey - good to hear people have got stuff. Hubby applied for nearly £6K (including a few he didn't expect to get - opening/closing/100m final, but lots of smaller events too) but didn't get any. I applied for a couple of the heats, nothing either. Very disappointed.

A mate of mine applied for £12K worth of tickets and got none.

So far I only know one person who got any and they are for the opening ceremony.

[thunderlizard]

Wow, I seem to have done really well. I'm not a sports fan so just applied for two events: one popular sport, one weird sport. Got the weird sport.

[fullyautomatix]

Was it not reported that the majority of tickets were gieven away to VIP's, sponsors etc ?

Also, I think in other countries like Germany etc you could just but tickets online straight away for any event. No lottery methods.

[Moscow Mule]

Was it not reported that the majority of tickets were gieven away to VIP's, sponsors etc ?

Also, I think in other countries like Germany etc you could just but tickets online straight away for any event. No lottery methods.

Half and half split (roughly) between available to public and not.

German Olympic committee can sell their allocation however they like. The yanks did a lottery.