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Empty seats strike bum note
If this Games was taking place pretty much anywhere else in the world, it would be a tout's dream.
Officially, it's a sell-out, all 6.8m tickets have gone, every session sold. Tourists here are desperate to get in, but tickets are extremely difficult to come by.
Touting's illegal in China, 29 men were picked up in a recent police sweep of those chancing their arm on Beijing's streets.
And yet, our commentators at the venues are all reporting the same thing, and the TV pictures are bearing this out, there are empty seats everywhere.

John Coates, International Olympic Committee member and the head of the Australian Olympic Committee, is surprised.
He says it's disappointing for the athletes, and that every Olympic event deserves a full house.
The Sydney venues were, he says, filled to 94% of capacity.
At the opening beach volleyball matches, crowds were particularly sparse, an impression made worse by the fact that the TV pictures highlighted vacant expensive seats closest to the action.
I raised this at the daily briefing with BOCOG, and the organisers were forthright.
They concede it's a problem, and are struggling for an answer.
Wang Wei, the deputy head of BOCOG, said it's a complicated picture, and he called on ticket holders to basically get their bums on the seats. So what's going on?
Well, chief suspects are the sponsors. They get piles of tickets in recognition of their funding commitments, and it seems they're finding it a bit hard to convince people to get out to the qualifying stages of some events.
Also, blame officials with tickets, be they from the media, the teams, or the NOCs who are also not taking their places.
Some are only showing up for part of the time, perhaps to see one match in a double-header.
Whatever the reason, the millions of people who applied for tickets but were unlucky must be hugely frustrated to see unfilled places simply because it seems others can't be bothered.
They're denying real fans the chance to feel a part, however small, of the greatest show on earth.
Surely, some system could be created to get those unwanted tickets into the hands of people who're happy to pay for them, and want to use them.
BOCOG should do something now - and London ought to take note.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/olympics/2008/08/empty_seats_strike_bum_note.html



咁珍貴o既歷史時刻，觀眾席竟然吉左咁多位（咁多人走開唔睇比賽 ），真係唔多尊重Ｄ奪金運動員

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??its quite usual
for events that is not so familiar,
its very usual to be not full house
as the photo shown, its 射箭~
i beg it is not that exciting to watch~

chong2002

根本就係抽水新聞

sage

how about hk's equestrian?

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原帖由 sage 於 2008-8-11 01:18 AM 發表
how about hk's equestrian?

My gf is a volunteer inside

She told me that  many people went there for the 紀念品only
not much people respect and watch the match at all

infjlam

呢單新聞，我唔否認有抽水成份，但人地做得新聞，亦非全無原因～
新聞背後意義，值得大家探討。

中國人始終係奧運新進，和國際社會還未完全接軌，
外國觀眾，買左飛，比例上較少甩底唔睇比賽，
中國／香港人買左飛又唔入坐，入坐又唔睇足全場，
不單浪費，而且唔尊重該項比賽和運動員！
若要歸咎話比賽悶，買飛之前又有否認真想過悶不悶才買？
入到場才發覺悶、唔識欣賞該項運動，那只能怪自己冇計算過、見識少，
生人霸死地，想睇冇得入場睇，有得睇又唔珍惜唔去睇（或提早離場），
說要做人文奧運，尊重奧運，還有一段頗長距離罷！

香港馬術奧運，情況亦一樣，
真正入坐率不高，提早離場亦不少，
其實未開始，亦預計得到，普羅香港人有幾了解奧運馬術？
不了解，唔緊要，慢慢學習欣賞，亦OK；

我認為香港唔係咁適合協辦馬術奧運，
因為這是個燙手山芋，反應一定唔會好理想，
當局應該一開始就要預計埋呢個因素～

[ 本帖最後由 infjlam 於 2008-8-11 11:20 PM 編輯 ]