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Reference:
2011/1191
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Question by:
Richard Barnbrook
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Meeting date:
18 May 2011
A constituent has advised that LOCOG announced only one ticket will be available per family to semi finalists and finalists at the Olympic swimming event. I'm sure families would expect to pay for tickets, however, is there any way families of competitors can access tickets to events without the lottery of going into a ballot? Sponsors and public bodies are allocated thousands of tickets for the games which has in the past lead to empty seats at events where the recipients of these tickets have not bothered to turn up. This infuriates the families of competitors who sometimes struggle to...