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Frequently asked questions about tickets for the London 2012 Olympics
When can I start booking tickets for the 2012 games?
7.7m tickets will go on sale in 2011, with a further 1.5m available
for the
Paralympics. Organisers are expected to decide on the ticketing system
at the
end of this year.
How much will they cost?
Prices are yet to be set. The London Organising Committee needs to
raise about
£660m from ticket sales and merchandise so they are unlikely to be
cheap but
officials have promised tickets will be priced "fairly"
and will include free travel
on public transport. In Beijing, the official price to attend the
four-hour session
that included the men's 100m final was £63. Best seats at a three-hour
session
of gymnastics finals cost £24.
Will anything be free?
Supporting the road cycling events in Regent's Park, the triathlon
in Hyde Park
and the marathon, which will go past the Houses of Parliament and
Buckingham
Palace, will cost nothing.
Will Londoners get priority?
The mayor, Boris Johnson, said that Londoners who are paying extra
taxes to
finance the games will have "fair opportunity" to witness
the action but what
that means remains to be seen. Plans for discounts and priority booking
for
Londoners will be considered in the coming months.
Will there be lots of empty seats
as at some events in Beijing?
The organising committee plans to ensure that at least 90% of tickets
will be sold
and they will remain on sale right up until the start of each event.
Spectators
leaving before events are finished may be able to leave their tickets
for
others to pick up free. The mayor also wants to use parties of children
to fill
empty seats. Unwanted corporate bookings were behind many blocks of
empty
seats in Beijing.
Won't touts buy up most tickets and charge over the odds for them?
Organisers are considering a system that links every ticket with its
original purchaser
possibly using photo ID. They say that tickets discovered for sale
on the black
market will be traced to their original owner with the help of the
security services.
Touts operated in Beijing, with some charging more than £150 for a
ticket to the
100m final.
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