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jiejie

Member Since 09 Jan 2008
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In Topic: London 2012 Olympics Tickets

17 September 2011 - 02:08 PM

I'm unfortunately not able to get to London 2012 at all, but if you have a chance to get Paralympics tickets, consider going. In Beijing 2008--with no prior in-person or secondhand viewing experience--I went to Para Athletics, Basketball, and Rugby and was blown away by the quality of competition, and by how enjoyable the events were from a spectator's perspective. Wish I'd gotten wiser earlier and seen some more Para sports.

In Topic: London 2012 Olympics Tickets

05 July 2011 - 12:53 AM

View PostFaster, on 30 June 2011 - 12:23 PM, said:

Beijing had there last sales in March and April 2008 (or only a mere 5 months before the games). Vancouver had a final round of sales in Demcember 2009. So its utter nonsense to say London cannot put together a final sales phase 7 months beforehand when every other host in recent memory has done so. And the deadlines for Olympic Family sales are well before the final round of sales, hence the final round of sales.

Actually Beijing 2008's local Phase 3 sale was May-early June, and the very brief Phase 4 sale was July 25-26, less than 2 weeks before Games started!

In Topic: Were you born in an Olympic Year?

05 July 2011 - 12:39 AM

Born very beginning of Olympic Year 1960, well before Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley started. Have some sketchy memories of watching televised highlights of Winter and Summer Olympics in 1968 but wasn't until 1972 Winter (Sapporo) and Summer (Munich) that I really have a lot of memories of the Games. Memories of the latter bring me more distress than joy.

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