it's the quote from the Daily Mail suggesting that the happy middle class mixed race family shown in the opening ceremony was a leftist fantasy that would be a major challenge to find in the actual UK, juxtaposed with a photo of Jessica Ennis receiving an MBE(?) accompanied by her delighted parents... I think you can probably figure out the point.

With all due respect this is the absolute worst kind of agenda-based false news reporting bollocks. Tickets for all olympic events are 'day passes'. You get access to the venue for the whole day's use, not for one match (mainly because for a lot of sports it's pretty tricky to exactly schedule when any given match will happen). So anyone who had access to centre court for the mixed doubles final had access to centre court for the whole day. Surprisingly enough, when Murray played Federer earlier in the day there wasn't a spare a seat in the house.

So what conclusion can we actually come to on the basis of evidence? That a lot of people didn't feel like sticking around for the mixed doubles. More fool them, frankly. But they were the people who had paid for the tickets and had managed to watch some tennis, so I guess they were within their rights to do it. It was absolutely feck all to do with the ticketing system, or LOCOG, or the IOC. It was simply down to the people who had the tickets not sticking around.

Now if you have a system that can predict which people at any given day's play at an event are going to be out of their seats so for that period and that period only so you can sell their ticket to someone else, I suggest you patent it, because every sports venue in the civilised world will pay you to use it.

And this is why the Daily Mail is full of [LIFTED] and you continually quoting them as a source of evidence is doing you no favours.

then why was Wimbledon half empty for the doubles final others would have been more then happy to take a seat ?
i will keep posting but now only using the DM links ...

When I eat at a restaurant I often don't finish a dish completely.

then get a doggy bag and take it home ...

Please, I'm begging you, tell me you're not that thick.


ah, right <files under 'troll'>

your choice, you choose. don't shoot the messenger as i am only the piano player ...

The seats were already allocated to the same people that were there for Murray vs Federer. I'm pretty certain that giving away someone's seat just because they don't happen to be sat there that moment is pretty dodgy territory.

if the seats are empty 30 minutes after the start of the (any) event, fill them for free
there are enough people waiting to take a seat, anything else is a massive fail ...

and just for interest the IOC spent £45,000 on a lunch for 12 members a few days ago in London
£24,000 on a 1948 bottle of cognac

the story was pulled and i am unable to post a link to it, but it happened
nice too know where the money is going ...

Why not kill two birds with one stone. Use homeless people to fill the seats and get them off the streets. I'm sure that will improve the image of London no end. If they refuse we can use force.

they have already done that with Her Majesties Armed Forces ...

so in the case you're stating, people would have been happy to wait around for 6 hours (the mixed doubles was the last but one match of the day) to see half an hour of the mixed doubles match? And that a mass of people coming in half an hour through the match wouldn't prove a disruption or distraction to the competitors? And that if no one had left, the DM wouldn't have been running a story along the lines of 'I waited all day for a ticket and didn't get in, its a disgrace'?

I'm, sorry, I was mistaken, you are that thick.

thank you it is noted and taken onboard ...

My sister was at the rowing on Saturday.
In comparison to the sporting events she's been to in the past, things like the 5 Nations, she reckoned the organisation and experience she had of an Olympic event pissed all over anything else she's been to.

Re. empty seats at events.
It happens everywhere. If there's a chance you'll get a freebie, why bother buying one?
Why not ask the cinema if you can skip in for free 30 minutes into the film for free, see what they say?

they don't televise film attendance but they televise the so called games attendance, world wide
empty seats at this level is a massive fail ...