2013年11月12日星期二
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Coe predicts huge demand for olympic tickets With a giant countdown clock
unveiled monday night in trafalgar square, coe's olympic organizing team is
prepared for a heavy crush when 6.6 million tickets are put up for sale online
Tuesday for the 650 competition sessions across 26 sports. "It's a big day
emotionally,"Coe said in an interview link with the associated press. "It's
a big day in reality of course. " Coe said the ticket launch marks the third
biggest online retail site in history after ebay and amazon.He said organizers
have worked hard to prevent the system from crashing. "I think there'll be a
massive interest,"Said coe, a twotime olympic 1, 500meter champion who heads the
local organizing committee. "We've done everything we can to stresstest the
system.I'm not going to sit here and tell you there will be no glitches.I really
hope not.This is not without its challenges. " The tickets, ranging in price
from 20 pounds($32)To 2, 102 pounds($3, 215), are being sold through a single
official website. Organizers stress the moncler t shirt tickets are not being
sold on a firstcome, firstserved basis.Customers can apply for tickets over a
sixweek period ending april 26.Any oversubscribed tickets will be distributed
via a ballot or lottery system.Tickets will be allocated by june 24. "You want
madonna, you want cup finals or super bowls, you go firstcome firstserved,"Coe
said. "Here, cheap
moncler men you stand no greater statistical chance"Of acquiring tickets on
the first day or last day. More than 2.5 million people have already registered
interest in buying tickets.And 26 european countries, moncler london with visa the only
credit card accepted.Elsewhere, including in the united states, the sales are
handled through national olympic committees. About 1 million tickets will go to
noneuropean overseas buyers, with american fans representing one of the biggest
blocs, coe said. Tickets for many sports start at 20 pounds($32), while the top
seats for the men's 100meter final will go for 750 pounds($1, 200). Coe said
ticket sales are the organizing committee's"Single biggest financial
dependency,"Projected to raise about 500 million pounds($800 million)In revenue.
"You do want to get tickets into the hands of the people who really want
them,"Coe said. "You don't want them in the hands of people that see them as
something that's tradable. " Coe spoke shortly before the steel countdown clock
began clicking down the days, hours, minutes and seconds to the opening ceremony
on july 27, 2012.The clock made by olympic sponsor omega is 8.5 meters(27 feet)
high,5 meters(16 feet)Long and weighs about 4 tons. "It will be a daily and
hourly reminder to everyone who visits trafalgar square.That the greatest show
on earth is soon coming to our country,"Coe said. The countdown comes with
olympic venues being completed on time and on budget.The public sector budget
for construction of venues stands at 9.3 billion pounds(15 billion), with the
bulk spent on regenerating a once disused industrial wasteland in east London
into a vast complex of gleaming venues that will be turned into a public park
and neighborhood after 2012. "Some of these venues are going to come within our
possession pretty soon, so we really have the herculean job of turning them into
working arenas for every client group,"Coe said. The ticket sales come weeks
after officials finalized the takeover of the 80, 000seat olympic stadium after
the games by west ham football club, which beat out premier league rival
tottenham after promising to retain the running track and keep the venue for
athletics as well as football. "I was very pleased,"Coe said. "For me this was
never a shootout between two football clubs.This was actually about commitment i
made very publicly.I take serious commitments i make publicly to deliver an
olympic legacy for that stadium.West ham most closely met that commitment. " On
the negative side, an ugly financial dispute flared into the open last week
between the british olympic association and coe's organizing committee.The boa
submitted its case to the court of arbitration for sport, claiming it should
receive a larger cut than originally promised from any surplus left after the
games. "It actually affects nothing,"Coe said. "It doesn't affect the ability of
team gb to perform. "It certainly doesn't prohibit or inhibit in any way the
delivery of the project, the simple staging of the games.This material may not
be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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