Great event and a real source of national pride.
But it was always going to be too good to be true to think that an event like this was going to be as flawless as some of us would want it to be.
Especially with all that astronomical amount of money that was spent to hold this event and the pre-olympic controversies in terms of people and businesses being forced to relocate and/or change certain things in order to accomodate the "integrity" of the olympics .
Now we're finding out that so many of the tickets that were promised to the public ended up going to the rich and famous ( or VIP ... whatever ) and a lot of people saw their dream of taking in the olympics shattered.
Apparently 98% of passes for the athletics events went to the VIP!!
Don't get me wrong. This was probably the best olympics ever and I'm proud that we hosted it. But whether it's the FIFA World Cup or the summer games , there always seems to be some shady dealings or inapropriate behavior going on behind the scenes.
Agree?
The London Olympics
posted on 20/12/12
I tried like hell to get tickets to no avail
I was sat on the home straight on thrilling Thursday at the paralympics though and was totally awesome
posted on 20/12/12
Did anyone really expect anything else given what it cost.
Same thing at football finals, the man on the street gets pushed to one side.
posted on 20/12/12
Loz
To be fair, lifelong City fan Tom Cruise was rightfully at the Derby
posted on 20/12/12
Yep applied for 3K's of tickets and got nowt. Like Macca went to last saturday of ParaOlympics and it was fantastic. No VIPs to be seen and no prawn sandwiches !
posted on 20/12/12
and those VIPs never even bothered to show up at the games , did they?
as SSN highlighted there were alarmly so many empty seats at the London games!!!
VIP ... Vastly Idiotic People
posted on 20/12/12
Virtually Invisible People!