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There are a few venues missing from your list DG. Wembley Stadium and the
All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club are two that spring to mind.


There are plenty of venues missing from my capacities list. Click through from the link in tip 6 for further details.

Thanks DG, very useful. Hoping to see some Table Tennis and athletics so hopefully I'll have some luck.

I agree with Greg (for once)...

The best ticket lottery is turn up on the day and pay at a turnstile. I suppose this is hopelessly old fashioned though.

...But what if all the tickets don't sell...

I'm just glad this is all happening in London, and not where I live. :)

Greg - go and stroke a kitten instead for two weeks.

Don't forget there are quite a few you can see some of for free - the marathons, the cycle road races and the triathlons all take place in central London. And I'm informed there are other viewing points in Weymouth other than the official ticketed area where you can see the action (although I guess its not the easiest sport to follow from land).

And Greg, stop it with this 'Great Majority' nonsense, we know you don't like it but polls have always shown majority support. It's only a couple of weeks of disruption, can't you let the rest of us enjoy it?

A Z1-9 travelcard thrown in with a £20 ticket? (I wonder how many people going to the rowing/canoeing/mountain biking/sailing will get excess fared by relying on those?)

But if we get another above-inflation fares increase between now and then, it could be a bargain - even if you don't go to the event.

Well, we've been assured everything will be done to make sure public transport runs well during the Great Thingummy, so.......
Olympic Tube challenge, anyone? unning

@ Greg - you have my sympathies. Bah Olympics Humbug! I'm just glad it ain't me (this time). But yes - petting kitties does lower blood pressure and make one more relaxed :) It also produces happy kitties. (Any excuse for a gratuitous kitten comment).

Hey I don't see kittens on the interactive schedule! :)

"Payment will be taken somewhere between Tuesday 10 May and Friday 10 June"

Shame interest rates are so low because they could have made quite a tidy sum on all that ticket money, over 13 months... ah, no, wait... presumably the ticket money could be used instead of bank loans to finance the latter stages? Or does it all have to be held by some bank in a non-interest attracting account?

I'm not a sports fan at all. Don't even watch it on the TV but if our games are anything to go by, I think you'll all get quite swept up in them once they start and you see for yourselves just how electric the atmosphere is.
I was rather like Greg, until I went to see the torch come through my city on it's way to the opening ceremony!

Bloody hell, this is complicated, I've had 3 large G and Ts and I still can't figure it out. I could end up shelling out a fortune to watch Olympic tiddlywinks if I get it wrong.

My nephew really want's to see the lady's beach volley ball for some reason - I don't want to buy too expensive a ticket or he might end up er, too close to the action for his own good. Strategy?

@Michael ... let's cancel the Olympics and have an International Cat Show instead.

@Greg ... Awwwww. Maybe if we ask DG real nice he will let you post pictures :)? :):)

Geoff - I bet most of this "majority support" is outside London, and therefore not paying through the nose for the bloody thing...

Nope - support is pretty strong in London:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-10742189

and anyway, the whole country is paying through the nose for this, not just Londoners!

/bored-now-by-gratuitous-kitten-comments

A few questions, in case someone here knows the answers...
1) When the Olympics folks were trying to get permission to use Greenwich Park for the horse events, there was talk of some sort of priority booking for a number of tickets for Greenwich residents. How we apply for those, or has that all fallen by the wayside?
2) If you pay by cheque, do they take all the money upfront and then pay you back after the raffle for the ones you don't get?
3) Is there some multi-stage arrangement so that you can do "if I don't get my preferred choice I'll go for something different"?
4) "If you have a group of people going together can you say for example "6 tickets for this, or none"?

dg writes:
1) Not heard anything
2) They haven't said yet
3) No, no preferences at all
4) Yes

"the whole country is paying through the nose for this, not just Londoners"
Is that actually true? I know that London businesses and council tax payers are paying an extra wodge for a few years. I also believe that there's an outflow of tax from London to the provinces, with few places outside of London paying more in tax than they receive in public spending.

"If you have a group of people going together can you say for example "6 tickets for this, or none"?" Just seen that there is - missed that first read.

"3) No, no preferences at all"
That's a PITA, isn't it? So my only way of saying (on behalf of my brother's family, who want to come and stay and see the horses) "I want 5 tickets to any two things in the horses" is to apply for EVERYTHING, and then flog the excess later?
Or is there some sort of buyback guarantee or authorised after-market?

@GORN - Sorry, no, there won't be an "anything to do with horses" option. See here. Every session is a separate raffle, in which you either win something or you don't.

If you're over-lucky and win too much, yes, there will be an opportunity to "offer tickets for resale". But not until 2012.











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