Has anyone got any Olympic tickets?

mudsucker

Hello,

I have just checked my bank account and i'm pretty sure looking the the ticket prices i've got tickets for the mountain biking! Yay

Anyone else had any sucess?

Anonymous

mudsucker wrote:

I have just checked my bank account and i'm pretty sure looking the the ticket prices i've got tickets for the mountain biking!

Oh dear. Please accept my condolences and commiserations.

Thewaylander

Never mind mate, take a good book with you, that will pass the time

lawman

mudsucker wrote:

Hello,

I have just checked my bank account and i'm pretty sure looking the the ticket prices i've got tickets for the cyclo-cross! Yay

Anyone else had any sucess?

fixed that for you

VWsurfbum

No wasnt successful :evil:

For all you haters of the course, people who have ridden it have said its not quite as easy as it looks, one of my mates rode one of the rock gardens and it pulled the gear cable clean out of the rear derailiur as it was being thown around so much!
(all this is of course hear say as i havent ridden it myself) There is a race there in July, but its £20 a ticket and on a sunday, dunno if i can be bothered not to ride and pay to watch???

Anonymous

It's not so much hating the course, it's just that watching XC is as dull as. Erm. A very dull thing indeed.

VWsurfbum

yeehaamcgee wrote:

It's not so much hating the course, it's just that watching XC is as dull as. Erm. A very dull thing indeed.

I agree, but the lack of decent sized "hills/Mountains" in london this makes good use of, but wont be getting my £20.00 to watch cyclo crossers do there thing

Now if i could do a few laps first before the main event then i'd happily pay!

Anonymous

Frankly, we're all paying for it, and will be for years to come. In the middle of one of the largest economic meltdowns in history, the country is funding this pantomime, with our money, then asking for more of our money so we can go and watch it.
I find it insulting, to be honest.

Cleat Eastwood

yeehaamcgee wrote:

Frankly, we're all paying for it, and will be for years to come. In the middle of one of the largest economic meltdowns in history, the country is funding this pantomime, with our money, then asking for more of our money so we can go and watch it.
I find it insulting, to be honest.

+ olympic sized potatoes

Did you see on the news about the fella who was willing to spend 36 grand on tickets and managed to bag 11 grands worth.

He must be a keen sportsfan.

cat_with_no_tail

Was on the news earlier that people living in London on average will be paying £20 per year each on their council tax bills, for the next 10 years (I know the money is coming from other sources too, but I'd just not heard this particular figure before).

Just dosent seem particularly payign that sort of dosh for an event many of them will never even be able to dream of affording to attend.

£450 to watch the track cycling finals. Seriously? are you on crack? :shock: :?

Anonymous

Is sportsfan what they're calling them nowadays, eh?

Anonymous

Cat With No Tail wrote:

£450 to watch the track cycling finals. Seriously? are you on crack? :shock: :?

Especially when we, the people, paid for it in the first fukking place.

Kitty

None for Kitty.

cooldad

I got everything I bid for.













Which was nothing.

Stevo_666

Quite happy to watch what I want to on the box and will probably get a better view to boot. I never applied for any tickets but I didn't realise that they were price gouging quite that badly until now. Jeez.

mudsucker

Can open, worms everywhere

I applied for sailing and biking and to be honest i wanted the sailing ones more but still happy to get the biking and be part of the olympic experience. How often do you get to say i've watched some olympic competition?

I also don't get people saying they don't care about the Olympics in London. You won't get another chance to go to an Olympic event again in your own country so i say embrace it.

runs to get tin hat

Anonymous

You only get one opportunity to be brutally beaten to death as well, that doesn't make it something desirable.

getonyourbike

I wanted to watch the BMX as it's the most exciting thing on a bike there. I don't know if I've got any though.

Rich9

85 measly ferkin quids worth for us. we booked over £700 and foolishly were planning to make it our holiday next year.
We are not sure what the £85 relates to. It could be football at Old Trafford, Tennis or bloody gymnastics.
As its all we've got I hope its the football, as Old Trafford is only a hour or so away from home, therefore wont have to go to London for one sodding event.
Mightily frigged off with the whole thing and wish we'd never bothered

ollie_lucas1985

I put my name down for the BMX - no sign yet!..

Pudseyp

I would rather take a cheese grater to my bell end...

njee20

Then you didn't get them by all accounts.

We've either got men's hockey final or men's xc. Really hoping the latter, we shall see!

RevellRider

I don't think I've got any, put down for BMX. Guess I'll just go to the Worlds in Birmingham next year

Daz555

I have 293 pounds worth of something. That is all I know.

MountainMonster

Funny to see all you guys hating on this topic-

Must not be real cycling supporters.

GhallTN6

Would love to have taken my kids to something, but I could just imagine taking a 6 and 10 year old to an event and just hearing the "I'm bored, when can we go home" for however long it lasted.. And the missus would be worse! So probably a couple of hundred quid well saved in my opinion.

Tickets should have been free to UK taxpayers, or at least the kids!

At least I'll get my money's worth out of the TV license!

Anonymous

MountainMonster wrote:

Funny to see all you guys hating on this topic-

Must not be real cycling supporters.

No, I'm not a "real cycling supporter", whatever that means. I'm a mountain biker.
I never, ever professed to being a "real cycling supporter". Hell, I never even claimed to being a "pretend cycling supporter".
You know what I support far less than cycling though? The Olympic games.
It grinds me no end that people will get over-excited about things like 100m sprints, javelin or whatever, when the rest of the year they're completely oblivious. At least I'm honest, and consistent in my lack of support for it.

ol\'gregg

My girlfriends sister and husband have got some he's happy she's not. They just found out it's for womens volleyball.

Mojo_666

I would rather my taxes go on the Olympics than on people who can't be arsed to work for a living..but such is life. I have been sucking that one up for 20+ years and will have to suck it up for at least another 30.

Back on topic though I didn’t apply for any, I signed in looked through the list and just thought bleh.

Thewaylander

yeehaamcgee wrote:

MountainMonster wrote:

Funny to see all you guys hating on this topic-

Must not be real cycling supporters.

No, I'm not a "real cycling supporter", whatever that means. I'm a mountain biker.
I never, ever professed to being a "real cycling supporter". Hell, I never even claimed to being a "pretend cycling supporter".
You know what I support far less than cycling though? The Olympic games.
It grinds me no end that people will get over-excited about things like 100m sprints, javelin or whatever, when the rest of the year they're completely oblivious. At least I'm honest, and consistent in my lack of support for it.

This i never fail to understand peopls interest in a sporting event they have never participated in at any level. half the people who watch are normally fat and never so much as walked round the block(hinting at most football fans here).

Still all good, if people wont to throw there hard earned cash down the toilet i just wish i wasn't asked to be dragged along for the ride as a tax payer

spongtastic

No XC tickets for me, but then again after paying for the tickets, park & ride (theres no parking on site), food, bits for the kids £200 would have disappeared.

Even worse if I'd tried the London events. Tickets cost more and Worst Great Eastern or whichever bunch of plums get the franchise (sorry to the train driving cruddites) would have taken another £200 because you'd have to travel peak, then sit on an already crowded rush hour train, just knowing that one of the weirdos from the secure unit near Seven Kings would use it as an excuse to jump in front of the train and ruin everybodys day/some pikey would nick the cable/somebody would go on strike. The day would end up costsing £400 with a good probability that we wouldn't even get there.

What a bargain for something I can watch on TV, knowing that I have a choice of drink other than coke, and food other than McDonalds, all of which I can pay for without a Visa card.