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February 12th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Glen Owen
Last updated at 12:46 AM on 12th February 2012
Rich businessmen are being offered the chance to ‘buy’ access to VIP road lanes during the London Olympics for £20,000 a head, an undercover investigation has revealed.
Companies including High Street travel chain Thomas Cook stand accused of violating Olympic rules by secretly including use of the fast-track routes in corporate packages.
Customers are being warned to keep the offer ‘really quiet’ because ‘people will say you can buy your way on to the lanes’.
Controversy: Two companies have been caught offering paid-for access to VIP lanes for travelling to the Olympics
The revelations will increase the controversy over ticket allocations for this summer’s Games, amid claims ordinary people have little chance of securing the best seats – and will face travel chaos as VIPs sweep past on dedicated routes.
A total of 39 miles of roads in London will include a special lane that can only be used by 80,000 accredited members of the ‘Olympic family’, including 10,500 athletes.
The Mail on Sunday revealed last year that high-tech sensors are buried in the lanes to ensure that red traffic lights will automatically turn green to speed dignitaries to the stadium.
Experts warn that the express routes will bring chaos to the capital’s roads as thousands are forced into clogged bus lanes. Now two companies have been caught apparently offering paid-for access to the VIP lanes.
Reporters from Channel 4’s Dispatches were offered a Thomas Cook package priced at £450,709 for a group of 23. The week-long deal included tickets for the men’s 100 metres athletics finals, six nights at the five-star Athenaeum hotel in Mayfair – and access to the lanes.
In the programme, to be shown tomorrow, Pete Moore, who described himself as the company’s Head of Olympic Trip Packages, says corporate purchasers could use the road lanes by putting accreditation signs on the front of their dedicated ‘luxury coaches’.
Lord Coe, chairman of London Organising Committee of the Games, has claimed that 75 per cent of all tickets will be available to the public
Mr Moore then adds damningly: ‘There have been so many issues with these Olympic lanes and to be honest with you we need to keep it really quiet because we can’t really be saying that we have access to it… people will say, “Oh well, you can buy your own way on to the Olympic lanes.” ’
A second hospitality company, Jet Set Sports, was also recorded offering access to the lanes, even when customers were not travelling to Olympic events.
Richard Relton, a member of Jet Set’s staff, is heard boasting: ‘The key is the Olympic lane network. Our guys will travel in the official vehicles, so it gets you to the closest drop off point… you can travel in the lanes for as long as where the lanes are relevant.’
Last night, a spokeswoman for the London Organising Committee of the Games (LOCOG) said it was investigating. As an Olympic sponsor, Thomas Cook is entitled to use the routes, while Jet Set Sports carries out work on behalf of sponsors which gives it similar entitlements. But LOCOG rules bar them from including the use of the lanes in its packages.
Hundreds of thousands of tickets have been sold by LOCOG to hospitality providers, with Thomas Cook paying £25 million for 300,000 tickets.
Although Lord Coe, chairman of LOCOG, has claimed that 75 per cent of all tickets will be available to the public, for most popular events, such as the men’s 100 metres, it is likely to be closer to 50 per cent.
Jet Set Sports is owned by Sead Dizdarevich, an American multimillionaire implicated in a bribery scandal in 1999. He admitted paying £83,000 to officials to help Salt Lake City win the bid for the 2002 Winter Olympics.
A LOCOG spokeswoman said: ‘We have been very clear with our authorised ticket resellers that the right to purchase our tickets does not include the right to access the Olympic lanes. Any evidence that suggests they are trying to sell access to the lanes will be immediately investigated.’
Jet Set Sports said Mr Relton was no longer an employee and that he had given inaccurate information.
Thomas Cook said Mr Moore was not an employee and worked for iLUKA, a ticketing company that has formed a partnership with Thomas Cook for the Olympics.
The spokesman added: ‘We have yet to see the programme and will investigate the issues raised following transmission.’
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Why have priority lanes even been created? It’s scandalous!
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Ahhhhhh…………. the People’s Games………….. that’ll be the rich people then – but everyone else can chip in to pay for them.
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Lets face it, we’re paying for it but we won’t be welcome to it. Oh yes you may have gotten tickets to volleyball that’ll be in the rain or even snow. As for the 100m and all the other top shelf event’s, we the people have no chance. If your part of the rich elite then come on in, we have our very own commuter lane for speedy access. Don’t worry about the British, they can watch it on the BBC…………….It’s not even here yet and I’m sick of it already and yes, I won’t be watching it on the Euro flag waving BBC propaganda machine. It’s late and I’m feeling irritable and this has just piqued me into a rant. Apologies all.
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The Olympics are 2 weeks of meaningless tripe.A complete waste of time,money and space.The host City will be left broke,and nothing of any real importance will remain as a legacy.And all over sports that none of us know anything about , nor care to.The Olympics are all surface,but no substance.
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Didn’t take long for the corruption to start and perks to be offered out at a cost to US to people who can afford it. I’m tired of the olympics, I didn’t want it and no one really got the option to opt out. Thanks government again for wasting billions in a so called recession! Smart!
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I am sure this is not going to be a surprise to anyone. I have been to several Olympics as a guest of a corporate sponsor and always been driven in the special Olympic lanes. I thought it was part of the sponsorship package.
But I do think people are going to be surprised at the privileges of sponsors when the games take place: for example, their products have exclusivity within the venues.
Corporate sponsorship affects the Olympics as much as other sports.
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Wonder when it will finally dawn on Londoners that they will only be allowed on certain modes of transport at certain times of day with a valid games ticket to accompany their bus, tube or train ticket?
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Ah yes, the corporate ticket, the baine of all the real fans. Wimbledon, Lords, Trent Bridge and other venues, the corporate party-goers are seen in the reception tent, and never in their seats watching the game. They are too busy frollicking, drinking and filling their guts full of food. The same will happen at the Olympics, the corporate tents will be full but the stadium seats will be empty. Only this time, they will have VIP lanes open to them so they can at the grub and booze in record time.
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Under the Freedom of Information may we have a list of the non athletic VIPs to see who has this perk and also make sure they are not bought on public expenses.
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