Olympic Tickets or the 2012 rip off

Quite fancied going to the olympics as a one off event for my life time but it looks like that dream is fading now.

Basically where are the concessions? I assume that the Olympic commitee do know that people live outside of London? The cost of travelling down to London and staying in London is extremely prohibitive normally, without factoring in olympic ticket prices, the undoubted hike in prices by both train companies hotel companies during the olympic weeks and I can see the catering being absolutely extorniate.

My other point is why is there blue riband events? If the seats are being decided on a ballot when over subscribed. This ballot should apply to all seats and prices be all the same. this would ensure that the Olympics that we have all paid for has equal accesiblity to all.

As usual something the average Joe has actual paid for is moved out of his financial reach.

I signed up as a first aid volunteer because I knew that would be the case, and the way I see it is that an olympics coming to your country really is a once in a lifetime thing, and when you've got a phenomenon like Usain Bolt walking the planet it was even more reason to.

You can list your choices of the events you'd like to be part of the most. Fingers crossed I get to first aid in the stadium at the time of the mens 100m and 200m. In my dreams though with my luck an all.

Does seem pricey.

[Littlepeahead]

I'm so non-plussed about the whole thing that I'm sick of it already - and I work at one of the venues so next summer I may be forced to take all my holiday over the period of the games even though I don't like taking my holidays in the summer.

Im kinda glad that I'll be a qualified medic by the time the olympics gets here, so that'll be 2 and a half weeks of loads of overtime (free seats) throughout the games and then theres the overtime through the para-olympics (Again free seats (which don't seem to be getting as much press)), plus the build up in weeks before and after the events.

Now if I could just give a rodents rectum about these games, when I feel the country should sort its self out first, then worry about hosting the olympics and para-olympics,

Just my tup'pence

oh look, another Olympics in Great Britain bashing thread.

lets put this politely, **** off you miserable *******s.

this thread is dead to me

OK keith, please can you pay for a ticket for me, wife and daughter, the train fare, and the hotel, and I'll gladly attend and share your happiness at havng the event here.

It's not about sport anymore, it's all about money. To give you an example, you can only buy tickets with a Visa card, because Visa have done a deal with the organisers. So if you have any other credit card, you're stuffed.

Ass far as I'm concerned, the Olympics have just become a corportate wank-fest.

[punyXpress]

Games, what games?
'tis just a ploy by keithd to clear the roads so's we can all get out and play for a couple of weeks.
How about a ' notthegames ' rideout or two?

Originally Posted by Ed

OK keith, please can you pay for a ticket for me, wife and daughter, the train fare, and the hotel, and I'll gladly attend and share your happiness at havng the event here.

Ditto - prefer a ticket to the diving please!!