Minister defends Olympic ticket sale
February 19, 2012, Sunday
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PEOPLE still hoping to get tickets for the London Olympics won't get another shot at buying them until April.
Word on the next offering came on the same day Britain's Olympics minister rejected demands for a full accounting of sales. Hugh Robertson said on Friday it is not the right time for Olympics organizers to provide details about a ticketing process that has been dogged by problems.
Robertson spoke after a London watchdog group insisted that organizers clearly show how sales break down between expensive and affordable tickets. Critics have sought the data to see if a disproportionate number of tickets have been sold at higher prices, shutting out those who couldn't pay for the popular events.
"I think it's unreasonable to ask," he said at the Track World Cup cycling event at the Olympic Velodrome. "This is the middle of a very big, complicated ticketing operation - they're trying to market tickets for 26 simultaneous world championships in one day. It's an operation that has never, ever been done before."
Games organizers said they would respond to the assembly's request when ticket sales are done. "We will do that when we've sold the other 4 million tickets," organizing committee chairman Sebastian Coe said.
Word on the next offering came on the same day Britain's Olympics minister rejected demands for a full accounting of sales. Hugh Robertson said on Friday it is not the right time for Olympics organizers to provide details about a ticketing process that has been dogged by problems.
Robertson spoke after a London watchdog group insisted that organizers clearly show how sales break down between expensive and affordable tickets. Critics have sought the data to see if a disproportionate number of tickets have been sold at higher prices, shutting out those who couldn't pay for the popular events.
"I think it's unreasonable to ask," he said at the Track World Cup cycling event at the Olympic Velodrome. "This is the middle of a very big, complicated ticketing operation - they're trying to market tickets for 26 simultaneous world championships in one day. It's an operation that has never, ever been done before."
Games organizers said they would respond to the assembly's request when ticket sales are done. "We will do that when we've sold the other 4 million tickets," organizing committee chairman Sebastian Coe said.
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