Expensive Olympic Tickets

Started by Lise, Oct 13 07 08:14

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Would you pay a LOT for an Olympic Ticket?

No
6 (85.7%)
Yes
1 (14.3%)
Depends on what event
0 (0%)

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Lise

Oct 13 07 08:14
I can't believe the prices for these tickets!! $500 and up for the Opening Ceremony?? Or a seat at the hockey game? It's outrageous! Normal folks wouldn't be able to afford them.

  I think I'll just sit at home and watch the TV... at least I'll be warm and I can see it better.

  Geez... what a rip-off.
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Bill Cosby.

49er

#1
Oct 13 07 09:58
most of these tickets will be purchased by corporations and given to clients.......just part of the cost of doing business and to support the Olympics

Russ

#2
Oct 13 07 10:45
[DIV align=center]I will pay for them... I have already sent in an email asking for tickets for two for the last three games in the gold cup ice hockey championships

 
Mercy to the Guilty is Torture to the Victims

Sportsdude

#3
Oct 13 07 10:59
I bet the biathlon is one of the cheaper events. Going to one of those live is like going to a college football game. Crowd goes Ohhhh ahhhh if the athlete shoots and misses their target.

cross country skiing is a good one to see as well.

speed skating would be fun to watch.
 
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Lil Me

#4
Oct 13 07 03:04
 49er wrote:
most of these tickets will be purchased by corporations and given to clients.......just part of the cost of doing business and to support the Olympics
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 If it's like Expo '86, the contractors, sponsors and volunteers were comped tickets to the opening/closing and some of the events.  We got tickets through relatives who were contractors and through singing in youth choirs at various events.
 
 I'm not gonna pay $$$ for a ticket, but I'll take a freebie if it comes to me! :)
 
 Yes, Biathlon is gonna be a cheap event!!! So is x-country skiing.  Given the massive course, for much of the time, there is not much to "see".
 
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Sportsdude

#5
Oct 13 07 05:08
Biathlon maybe on a big course but the action and the crowds are in the shooting part. Its exciting. The crowds chant, sing, any of the actual passing of people in the events is done in the shooting part.  
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Lil Me

#6
Oct 13 07 05:40
Ok.  Have fun!  
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."  Robert Heinlein

Sportsdude

#7
Oct 13 07 05:47
lol I have barely enough money to afford a ferry.  
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

Russ

#8
Oct 13 07 06:37
Lil Me wrote:
Ok.  Have fun!  
   Uh, was that to me, or SD? I was reading this thread and got lost here. lol. I seem to be doing that alot lately.

    I probably wont go to any other events unless a group of friends are going and we can get a discount or something on a group... I sent in the email with a query.... if it is astronomical I prob wont go and will watch it on the tv. Otherwise to me its a once in a lifetime opportunity to see something like this IN bc! And to see Canada win the gold no less (shameless plug)
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Sportsdude

#9
Oct 13 07 06:57
dunno, the women are the better of the two teams right now I think.
we should be good though, got to rid the team of old farts that plagued us in Tofino.
Luongo, the staal family, crosby

 
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P.C.

#10
Oct 14 07 12:13
That's WAY out of our snack bracket.  No Olympics for us.
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Sportsdude

#11
Oct 14 07 12:53
probably better to get that HD tv and watch it in the ebony lounge.  
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

P.C.

#12
Oct 14 07 01:22
We have HD TV.....so that's exactly where we'll be watching.
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

Russ

#13
Oct 14 07 01:33
HD tv is the way to go!

  Im STILL thinknig of a new big plasma even though I got a hundred other things to get before it. Add to teh fact my 45" lcd still works great. But a plasma...
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Lil Me

#14
Oct 14 07 01:34
Kind of makes you think the "spirit of the olympic games" has been lost in the wake of the corporate side of the olympics.  This isn't what Heracles intended when he started this whole business in ancient Greece....    
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."  Robert Heinlein
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