Olympic tickets

Anonymous

I expect Hockey clubs got tickets because hockey is one of the sports that will really struggle to sell out.

The joke is that being a fan of these sports gets you nothing. Why not give priority access to fans weho attend relevant events - you'd have badminton matches in 2010/2011 sold out, same for even wrestling! More money for the sports, better atmosophere in build-up for athletes and more knowledgeable fans.

The average fan in the velodrome will be expecting a GB medal sweep - the atmosphere is going to be pretty sh*t as they start realising it's likely to be an Australian one!


They should at least have sold some paired tickets to warm-up events and Olympics, with no olympics tickets if you don't attend the warm-up.

Tusher

RichN95 wrote:

Tusher wrote:

It's the archery that seems so cruel- they could probably fit all the archers in the UK into Lords, which means that people like Mr Tusher who shoot weekly themselves and avidly follow the sport stay are bitterly disappointed, and Lords will be full of people who've just ticked the archery box but couldn't care less if it was table tennis or tiddly winks. I've not ventured into any archery forum, but I suspect that they're full of very angry people just now. Who all have bows, arrows and know how to use them.

But did the British Archery Association (or whatever it's called) offer them to affiliated archery clubs? Because that's what hockey did. As I'm the club secretary of a fairly big hockey club, I bought over twenty tickets spread over three different days over a month ago.

GNAS and Archery GB weren't selling tickets (at least not in the Rev Tusher's club), and he's chatted to a few archers who are disgruntled, to say the least. Although one was hopeful that the hordes of unwashed going to Lords would be won over by their sport and thus it could win more fans, and more participants. There was also a link from the archery forum to the German site, and as they had archery tickets available, their most die-hard fans should be placated.

£126 has now been taken out of my account.

Ironically, this makes things worse- there are 7 of us going, and we've got 2 tickets between us. I've worked out they could be for archery (hubby), shooting (hubby, bro-in-law and nephew want to go) or.....................Ladies Beach Volleyball (the above 3 suspects). Nothing for the girls.

Before I found out we had two tickets, we had decided as a family to forget London and spend the money on Glasgow in 2014. Now we're not sure what to do, but Glasgow is becoming an attractive option. We would certainly have gone to events in Glasgow, but now we might just splash out, and binge on the whole 2 weeks there.

And with the money I would have spent getting us all to London, I could buy one of those giant TVs that hang on the wall.

mr_poll

Moomaloid wrote:

We live in an Olympic borough. Just 10mins down the road from the stadium. Haven't had any money taken as yet. So no Velodrome or Mountain Biking for me its seems pretty disgusted actually. Having had to pay for the bloody event, put up with all of the update work on the tube and roads and now this massive spectacle is gonna happen in my town and i can't even get to see anything...

Oh no I really feel for you - just think when the 3 weeks of the Olympics is over you will have a velodrome to ride in, a cycle park BMX and MTB to experience, a much better tube system and better roads to ride down to said velodrome and cycle park.
Whereas the great unwashed that live North of the Watford Gap have also had their taxes and the lottery funding diverted to this, whilst we also didnt get tickets nor the post games benefits.

verylonglegs

I can't help wondering that the much trumpeted ballot system drew more attention to the whole thing and people applied because it did actually have a prize factor rather than any over-riding interest in sport. I also suspect they'll be a few who having paid up for the ticket on a minor sport a year in advance find as it gets closer and booking travel, hotel etc become necessary start to think sod it, and don't bother going.

Tusher

Moomaloid wrote:

We live in an Olympic borough. Just 10mins down the road from the stadium. Haven't had any money taken as yet. So no Velodrome or Mountain Biking for me its seems pretty disgusted actually. Having had to pay for the bloody event, put up with all of the update work on the tube and roads and now this massive spectacle is gonna happen in my town and i can't even get to see anything...

I feel genuinely sorry for Londoners who didn't get any tickets- they should have been given some sort of priority or discount.
Not even their mayor can get tickets though.

Moomaloid

Like Boris aint gonna get to go...

I don't actually know anyone who has got tickets... none of my buddies here have...

Iain i'm up for that, as long as he dismantles his Tomeke shrine beforehand

RichN95.

Moomaloid wrote:

Like Boris aint gonna get to go...

Or, as has been widely reported from his twitter, the Wiggins family. The mainstream media don't seem to know that Brad takes the p1ss quite a bit.

allen.coulson

Nothing. F all!

iainf72

RichN95 wrote:

Or, as has been widely reported from his twitter, the Wiggins family. The mainstream media don't seem to know that Brad takes the p1ss quite a bit.

Don't something north of 50% of the tickets go to "members of the olympic family". Frankly, the IOC make FIFA and the UCI look like paragons of virtue.

inkyfingers

Moomaloid wrote:

Like Boris aint gonna get to go...

I was thinking yesterday that Boris Johnsons little "not even I got tickets" speech might backfire when he's no doubt shown on TV at the opening ceremony or something

Pokerface

iainf72 wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

Or, as has been widely reported from his twitter, the Wiggins family. The mainstream media don't seem to know that Brad takes the p1ss quite a bit.

Don't something north of 50% of the tickets go to "members of the olympic family". Frankly, the IOC make FIFA and the UCI look like paragons of virtue.

I was thinking the same thing. However, for the Paralympics, we (the athlete) can't do anything to help family members get tickets. Fortunately, none of the events will sell out so it's not an issue.

But I assume the same principle applies to the Olympics. Yet - you always see the family members of the athletes watching - so they must get them in somehow!

inkyfingers

Maybe family and friends get their tickets through the athletes sponsors?

MrChuck

I'm a bit ambivalent on the idea of 'proper' fans getting precedence over other people, or people who live within sight of the stadium or whatever. I can see that it could be a bit galling if you can't get in to the sport that you love while people who don't know one end of a hockey stick (or whatever) from the other are in there, but I'm not really sure that's the way it should work.

I'm inclined to think a ballot was the best way, but not necessarily the ballot they've actually done- there should have been some way of evening it out a bit, and certainly a maximum allocation of tickets per person.

But ultimately there aren't enough to go round, so I'm not sure that you can be 'disgusted' if you didn't get any.

That said, it is disgusting how many tickets/seats are taken by corporate sponsors and hangers-on, many of whom probably won't even bother to show up.

Tusher

Rebecca Adlington's family had to buy their own tickets for Beijing- the site they bought them from was fraudulent, and there was a news article at the time saying they were hoping to get tickets from elsewhere (which they did). So no, families don't get priority.

From the exciting world of archery, the only person we know who's going is someone who volunteered to help out.

We've decided as a family to forget London and buy every ticket we can for Glasgow, although hubby and I may go down for a couple of days if the tickets I've been allocated fit in with the road race or time trial. Two of us can sleep on a cousin's floor, 7 of us couldn't.

Nephew still deluded about Rio though.

frenchfighter

Pokerface wrote:

iainf72 wrote:

RichN95 wrote:

Or, as has been widely reported from his twitter, the Wiggins family. The mainstream media don't seem to know that Brad takes the p1ss quite a bit.

Don't something north of 50% of the tickets go to "members of the olympic family". Frankly, the IOC make FIFA and the UCI look like paragons of virtue.

I was thinking the same thing. However, for the Paralympics, we (the athlete) can't do anything to help family members get tickets. Fortunately, none of the events will sell out so it's not an issue.

But I assume the same principle applies to the Olympics. Yet - you always see the family members of the athletes watching - so they must get them in somehow!

Why isnt Track Champion Wiggins' family getting tickets? Unless he is talking stupid.

frenchfighter

Also not sure about this talk of fans going to events should come first and foremost. Firstly this is very difficult to account for and second I would have thought that most people apply for tickets they want. I'm not a 'fan' of diving, I dont follow the sport (or any other apart from road cycling) but I still applied for tickets and would enjoy going because I think it is a great thing to watch.

gsk82

Moomaloid wrote:

We live in an Olympic borough. Just 10mins down the road from the stadium. Haven't had any money taken as yet. So no Velodrome or Mountain Biking for me its seems pretty disgusted actually. Having had to pay for the bloody event, put up with all of the update work on the tube and roads and now this massive spectacle is gonna happen in my town and i can't even get to see anything...

oh no you had to put up with yet more improvements to the most developed transport system in the country. i'm so glad that they've never upgraded the a63 in hull, think of the disruption