Tickets For Vancouver 2010 Games In High Demand
Organizers for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games say the public is clamouring for tickets to sporting events to the tune of $345 million in value based on a five-week Internet request for tickets, reports the Canadian Press.
Most popular is the men's gold medal hockey games which had 140,000 requests for tickets.
According to the Canadian Press the ticket value for the Vancouver-Whistler Games is far higher than the $75 million worth of tickets requested for the 2002 Salt Lake City Games. The organizing committee says double the ticket requests have come in during almost half the time, compared to the Salt Lake Games, although the cost of tickets for those Games isn't known.
Organizers say the "whopping" value of ticket requests for the 2010 Games shows how much money people are willing to commit to tickets, especially for other high-profile events like the Opening Ceremony, women's gold hockey, and the men's halfpipe snowboarding.
Meanwhile more than 120 of the 170 events at the Games were oversold, meaning a lottery will have to be used.
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