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General Category => Sports/Entertainment/MSM/Social Media => Topic started by: famousdayandyear on July 30, 2012, 03:23:47 am

Title: Olympics: Rows and Rows of Empty Seats (IOC Recruits Soldiers to Fill)
Post by: famousdayandyear on July 30, 2012, 03:23:47 am
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2180579/Olympics-2012-Row-row-seats--tickets-sent-foreign-VIPs-black-market.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2180579/Olympics-2012-Row-row-seats--tickets-sent-foreign-VIPs-black-market.html)

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Title: Re: Olympics: Rows and Rows of Empty Seats (IOC Recruits Soldiers to Fill)
Post by: Rapunzel on July 30, 2012, 03:50:15 am
Large areas of empty seats seen in stadia for the second day running
London 2012 chairman Lord Coe reveals students and teachers are also being called in at the last minute
Every tout arrested had tickets sent to foreign VIPS
Organisers Locog have begun an investigation into the ticketing fiasco

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Title: Re: Olympics: Rows and Rows of Empty Seats (IOC Recruits Soldiers to Fill)
Post by: Rapunzel on July 30, 2012, 03:52:36 am
Well there is going to be a lot of crow after the way they went after Romney... I don't remember these problems at the SLC Olympics -- and as the Brits tried to remind us -- they were in the boonies by comparison!

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Good ole Lord Coe is trying to save some face it seems.

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But a prickly Lord Coe insisted the ticketing process had worked.

He even dismissed pictures of empty seats as ‘holiday snaps’ before admitting troops and students could be used to fill gaps.