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Nearly 2 million Olympic tickets sold
(Xinhu)
Updated: 2004-06-24 09:51
Athens Olympic organizers (ATHOC) announced on Wednesday that nearly 2
million Olympic tickets hasbeen sold, covering nearly 80 percent of its original
budgetary target.
About 1,950,000 tickets have been sold so far, covering 79 percent of Athens
2004 original budgetary target of 183 millioneuros (US$223 million), ATHOC said
in a press release. It predicted that tickets of some team sport, for example
Olympic football and volleyball tournaments, will be in great demand in the
immediate future, it added.
It stressed that its objective had been to sell 68 percent ofits tickets to
offset budget costs, pointing out that tickets have never been exhausted at any
Olympic Games.
ATHOC labeled as "inaccurate" the reports that 800,000 tickets slated for the
NOCs have been returned.
"Since the start of the Athens 2004 ticketing program, the (Organizing
Committee's) contractual partners have purchased 900,000 tickets. Of these, they
have returned 72,000 - only 8 percent,the smallest percentage of returns for any
Olympic Games to date,"it said.
On so-called "subsidies on tickets," ATHOC asserted that "its policy on
ticket sales for the Olympic Games will remain unchanged," adding that there
will be no changes in ticket prices either nowor in the future.
ATHOC also disclosed that according to its agreement with the General
Secretariat for the Olympic Games, it will supplyapproximately 4,800
tickets.
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