olympic tickets debacle

[frenchkiwi]

couldn't post this reply to "WTF is the deal with olympic tickets?" thread as it was deleted while i was typing so here is an interesting anecdote for whoever authored that post:

if it makes you feel any better, the tickets issue has even affected some athletes in their choice of discipline (an english one - and a londoner at that).

just saw

with Bradley Wiggins from a year ago. he won his gold in the road time trial today but his first choice was the track (where he won 3 golds at the last 2 olympics). But finding out that his kids wouldn't be able to get tickets for the velodrome to watch him helped to nudge him to a switch to the road where anyone can watch you for free.

and i laughed when i read this today:

"After winning the Tour de France, Wiggins showed a healthy disregard for protocol by addressing the British fans; here, he did something similar afterwards by freewheeling from the finish area for a mini lap of honour among the crowds, who were unable to enter the Hampton Court palace precinct where the medals were handed out. "The great thing about cycling is its accessibility, we all know about Olympic ticketing. All the real fans are out there, in here it's a bit of a prawn sandwich fest.""

Having said all that i found the original edited post here (the one that disappeared then reappeared!)

[mazolaman]

Money, money, money.....