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By Ben Owen
55 per cent of London Daily News readers regard the way in which Olympic tickets have been allocated as unfair, in a poll conducted by The London Daily News the online newspaper for London.
Asked "do you feel the Olympic ticket allocation system has been fair to Londoners? 28.55% (163) regarded the system as fair and 55.69% (318) said the system was not fair.
The London Daily News Editor-in-Chief John Kaponi said:
"The whole fiasco surrounding this apparently fair system of allocating system only goes to show how badly wrong LOCOG have got the whole approach to tickets. Each household in London should have been given preference and a total number of tickets, after all it’s our Council Tax that’s paying for the Games".
Despite the growing anger at the way in which tickets have been allocated the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) still claim they "got it right".
Well LOCOG you haven't got it right, and we are all building up to a perfect storm next summer, when many millions in the UK will feel that the Olympics was an expensive waste of time and energy.
LOCOG said that to meet the demand in tickets two million tickets would have to be made available for the 76,000 Olympic stadium, with 1.3 million requests alone to see the 100-metre men’s final.
So what about your average Londoner who lives in a high-rise block in Hackney? The average ticket prices are £275 per ticket with two-thirds of tickets sold for £50 or less. With that in mind millions of Londoners have already been eliminated from the equation, because the tickets are too expensive.
To add insult to injury 47,000 tickets for the Olympic stadium have been "reserved" for the international public, the national federations, the money people in other words. If you were not spending over £295 per ticket forget about getting into the Olympic Stadium.
Unless you want to watch mountain-biking, or dressage the rest of the events have already been sold out. Take a ticket to the Greek islands next summer and forget about London, after all that what TfL want most of Londoners to do during the Olympics.
photo credit: Getty/ ODA press office
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