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Olympic tickets
Posted by Johan on 15 October 2010 - 5:13pm.
A ticket near the front for the 100m final will set you back £725. Diving final - £450. Beach volleyball (yes, beach volleyball!) - £450!!!
Are they serious? There's no hospitality involved, those are prices for one ticket. Now I know the Olympics won't be around again any time soon, and I know there are cheaper tickets for the early rounds of some events, but really, those prices are a joke.
I'll be watching the mens cycling road race. That should be free, thank God.
Suddenly £75 to see Roger Waters perform The Wall seems like peanuts!
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I believe you can only buy them over the net if you have a visa credit card as they are a main sponsor.
I liked the idea that under 18's pay their age in pounds
that's neat.
Neatness
Cheapest tickets for the opening ceremony: £20.12
Most expensive tickets for the opening ceremony: £2012
I can see an error-trap there....
Plus fees?
I bet that will be "plus booking fee" to bring them to the price that they actually want to charge.
I'm waiting for the 2112 olympics...
My money's on By-Tor in the diving and Tom Sawyer in the shot put.
They'll have a problem using the hallowed halls for any events
as those pesky priests of the Temple of Syrinx have filled them with their great computers.
Yes, but that was before micro processors arrived at their gaff
Now their computers sit tidily on a table in the corner, leaving plenty of room for the gymnastics.
"We are the priests of the Temple of Syrinx
Our Dell laptops sit in a corner of these hallowed halls"
It'll never catch on...
My favourite ticket
Is to see the finish of the "walk". £30 to watch someone enter the stadium and stumble for 300 metres round the track, the bulk of the event having taken place outside the building.
Beijing
No tickets cost more than 100 quid.
Average salary in Beijing?
RMB 3746 per month. About GBP360.
Could you get tickets? Not really. It was bloody hard just trying to get people into the country.
Touts
Sell 'em cheap now and the touts will make a fortune. Set the prices high and sell the ones that don't sell closer to 2012 at a lower price.
If the tickets sell out at the high price set then they are under-priced.
My email says
90% of tickets are under 100 quid... I guess that's a bit of spin.
Spin? How so if it's the truth?
It is the truth
But it could also be considered spin, because people will assume that it means 90% of tickets for all events will be under £100, which isn't the case. In reality, very few tickets for, say, the top athletics events or the basketball or beach volleyball finals will be under £100. But fans of clay pigeon shooting, water polo and Greco-Roman wrestling will be fine.
I'm not sure people will read it that way.
I took it to mean that 90% of all tickets will be less than £100. It's fairly obvious that the remaining 10% will be for the high-profile events.
Not even Lenny Law will be paying
£450 for the women's beach volleyball and he's at the centre of their hardened support base...
Handball
Funnily enough, I think the 100m final would be the last event I'd want to go to.
Am I the only person in East London, or anywhere in Britain, who fancies the handball?
It's such a big event in Europe that it's even got it's own mini-stadium on site.
Went around the main venue last month and it's incredibly compact for an 80,000 capacity.....I was quite excited.