The Anonymous Widower

Olympic Tickets

Everybody has had their views on the problems with Olympic tickets.

The difficulty in obtaining tickets depends on many factors.

The first thing, is that the various stadia are probably not quite large enough.  But they were designed around the number of tickets sold at previous Games and of course within the more limited budget available for these Games.

I think too, that people like corporate sponsors are taking too many of the prime tickets.  But again, because of the straightened times we are in, we need the sponsors to keep the costs down.

But the biggest problem we have an immense number of people who can get to the Games. Obviously, there are all those, who can get to London for the day, but we have to include all of those, who have a friend or relative in the city. Let’s say you are Austrian and your daughter works in London.  With both the Olympics and the Diamond Jubilee, this summer, what better time to come and spend some time in the greatest city in the world, even if you have to sleep on the sofa or even the floor.

Many of these people, like the Irish, the Scandinavians and some of the smaller European Union countries will never get to host the Olympics in their lifetime, and as they have a right to buy tickets, then why will they not come?

So London is probably the most convenient city to hold the Olympics.  The only European ones that come near are Paris and Berlin. The next city, Rio di Janeiro may be a fabulous city, but it’s not exactly easy to get to. just like Beijing and Sydney.

We’re all suffering from excess demand and not enough tickets.

If the Olympics had gone to Paris, the same problem would have happened.

April 18, 2012 - Posted by AnonW | Sport, World | Olympics