China Man Posted October 29, 2006 Report Share Posted October 29, 2006 I read off a chinese news website2008.sohu.net( that there will be more than 7 million tickets to be sold in the games. Among these, 80% will be sold in the country and the remaining to the rest of the world. Which means that you will probably see a sea of black hair and red shirts in all Games venues. It's an open secret that China aims to be top of the medal table in Beijing 2008. It does help when you have a home crowd cheering you on! Actually, the Games is one of the great ways to instill national fervour and pride! At the same time, to assist the local people to be able to afford the tickets, the Olympic committee asserted that the ticket price will be the cheapest of the last few Olympics. Most locals reflect that they like the tickets to be less than 100rmb (US$12.67). Many don't mind paying 500rmb for the Opening Ceremony too. Still, this is even lower than the Los Angeles Games in 1984 (US$32 then) and cheaper than going to a movie in the States! In fact, the committee is thinking of giving concession tickets (which are dirt cheap) to students too. Can they really make money to cover the extremely high expenses in building 11 new stadiums, upgrading of the other stadiums and other infrastruture? But one thing's for sure, there will be lots of enterprising students selling the tickets for a profit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron-pierreIV Posted October 29, 2006 Report Share Posted October 29, 2006 (edited) I don't think the PRC gov't ever counted on making 2008 a profitable enterprise. It is an expensive PR gambit that comes along but once in a generation. And yeah, the host nation (except for one which shall remain nameless) always does exceedingly well in their home Games. Now, if China wins some 200 medals, vs. the $40 billion reportedly being spent, so that comes out to $20 million per medal roughly. Edited October 30, 2006 by baron-pierreIV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.x Posted October 29, 2006 Report Share Posted October 29, 2006 7 million? wow...that's nearly as many as Sydney. didn't Athens have 4 or 5 million? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotguy Posted October 29, 2006 Report Share Posted October 29, 2006 Atlanta had more ticket sales than both Barcelona and Seoul put together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian2004 Posted October 29, 2006 Report Share Posted October 29, 2006 7 million? wow...that's nearly as many as Sydney. didn't Athens have 4 or 5 million? Athens had approximately 5.3 million tickets. By the way, does someone have the exact numbers of all tickets available and of the tickets sold for every Olympic Games (summer and winter)? I'd like to make a comparison between the percentage of tickets sold for every Olympics to see how high the public interest in the respective Games was. I only have the following exact numbers so far: Sydney 2000: 6,679,792 tickets sold (=87.8 % of all tickets) Atlanta 1996: 8,384,290 tickets sold (=82.3 %) Los Angeles 1984: 5,017,524 tickets sold (=82.6 %) Munich 1972: 3,311,105 tickets sold (=74.6 %) And the numbers which are not so exact since I don't have the exact numbers of tickets available: Athens 2004: 3,581,080 tickets sold (=approx. 67.6 %) Barcelona 1992: 3,033,064 tickets sold (=approx. 80 %) Seoul 1988: 3,305,944 (=approx. 75 %) That means that in the past 22 years, the Games of Sydney 2000 had the highest public interest in terms of the number of sold tickets. And just to add -- here are the only exact numbers I have for the Winter Games: Salt Lake 2002: 1,525,118 tickets sold (=95.0 % of all tickets) Nagano 1998: 1,275,529 tickets sold (=89.4 %) And the not-so-exact ones: Lillehammer 1994: approx. 1,233,000 tickets sold (=approx. 87.2 %) Albertville 1992: approx. 900,000 tickets sold (=approx. 75.0 %) Calgary 1988: approx. 1,339,000 tickets sold (=approx. 78.0 %) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOC Posted October 29, 2006 Report Share Posted October 29, 2006 Among these, 80% will be sold in the country and the remaining to the rest of the world........ But one thing's for sure, there will be lots of enterprising students selling the tickets for a profit! That is not correct - 30% of tickets are offered to National Olympic Committees starting next week, which is when the prices will be released. I think prices come out on Friday. 30% are for Sponsors and Games Family 40% for the public Prices will be very cheap, and I am almost certain that you will see many tickets on ebay going for large amounts of money. BUT the first lot of tickets will not be from Chinese students, but rather from sponsors and National Olympic Commitee allocations which start in February or March next year. Opening Ceremony is going to be expensive for NOCs and Sponsors, and cheap for the domestic market. AND there is something different about the percentage that agencies like Jet Set and Cartan can put on their tickets. It used to be a maxmimum of 20% over face value, and for these Games it is a minimum of 20% with no maximum, so everyone from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the USA who have to order through Jet Set Sports are going to be paying through the roof for tickets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Rols Posted October 29, 2006 Report Share Posted October 29, 2006 If your country is hosting a gams, you'd certainly hope that the majority of the crowd will be home-towners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.x Posted October 30, 2006 Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 Torino sold 900,000 of its 940,000 tickets. Vancouver will begin selling its 1.8 million tickets in two years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Man Posted October 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 That is not correct - 30% of tickets are offered to National Olympic Committees starting next week, which is when the prices will be released. I think prices come out on Friday.30% are for Sponsors and Games Family 40% for the public Prices will be very cheap, and I am almost certain that you will see many tickets on ebay going for large amounts of money. BUT the first lot of tickets will not be from Chinese students, but rather from sponsors and National Olympic Commitee allocations which start in February or March next year. Opening Ceremony is going to be expensive for NOCs and Sponsors, and cheap for the domestic market. AND there is something different about the percentage that agencies like Jet Set and Cartan can put on their tickets. It used to be a maxmimum of 20% over face value, and for these Games it is a minimum of 20% with no maximum, so everyone from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the USA who have to order through Jet Set Sports are going to be paying through the roof for tickets. Can you go over to Beijing and buy just before the event starts? I am sure there will be people selling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Rols Posted October 30, 2006 Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 Can you go over to Beijing and buy just before the event starts? I am sure there will be people selling. There's always ways to get tickets. I remember after Barcelona 92 that Sports Illustrated did a feature where they sent one of their journalists there, with no acommodation booked and only $200(?) in his pocket, and told him to try and see at least one event from every sport _ and he managed it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOC Posted October 30, 2006 Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 Can you go over to Beijing and buy just before the event starts? I am sure there will be people selling. you can but you run the risk of not being able to buy Opening Ceremony, Swimming, Finals to the Athletics 100, Weightlifting and Diving as well as other very popular events. There will be a box office, but i will pay whatever the price I have to in order to ensure I have a seat at the opening Ceremony of Beijing. WHATEVER the price I am prepared to pay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micheal_warren Posted October 30, 2006 Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 you can but you run the risk of not being able to buy Opening Ceremony, Swimming, Finals to the Athletics 100, Weightlifting and Diving as well as other very popular events.There will be a box office, but i will pay whatever the price I have to in order to ensure I have a seat at the opening Ceremony of Beijing. WHATEVER the price I am prepared to pay. yea i wish i was going but i am planning on going to the games in 2012 in london! Beijing games should be brilliant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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