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August 1st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Nabila Ramdani and Peter Allen
05:16 EST, 31 July 2012
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11:17 EST, 31 July 2012
Francois Hollande has questioned the need for so many corporate seats at the London Olympics, saying a French version would be interested in ‘gold, not money’.
Expressing surprise at the number of empty places at the Games, President Hollande suggested that rich corporate clients were simply not turning up.
Speaking during a visit to London on Monday, he said: ‘The problem is that there are simply too many corporate seats.
Not on our watch: Francois Hollande (right) has said that if France got the 2024 Olympics, there would not be as many empty seats
‘It will be up to French organisers to sort out this problem if a bid for a future games is to be successful.’
Mr Hollande confirmed that a number of French cities, including Paris, were likely to bid for the 2024 Olympics after losing this year’s games to London.
‘I am not here to announce a candidacy,’ he said, ‘but we will present an extremely strong bid.’
Highlighting the fact that his Socialist government detested corporate greed and was solely interested in winning medals, Mr Hollande said: ‘We don’t talk of money, we talk of gold.’
Mr Hollande stopped short of directly criticising the British, however, saying: ‘The London Olympics have been very well organised. I’m not here to be a killjoy or to give lessons to the British. It’s not worthy of France.’
Not to capacity: Mr Hollande has noted that many events at the 2012 Games have not been filled to capacity. Today there were lots of seats free at the Riverbank Arena as the Netherlands took on Japan
Just how can you get the newly released tickets?
On the official Games website, it states that more tickets will be released on ‘an almost daily basis’ from now on.
After you have created an account, you must then search for what sport, event or venue you would like to attend.
Once you have selected the tickets you would like – starting price at £20 – you can then purchase them.
You must pay using a Visa card, as Locog have a commercial commitment to the company as they are the Games’ official sponsor.
Tickets can then be collected from the box office at the various arenas or stadia, or – if the event is later in the Games – you can have them delivered to your home.
The box office at the Olympic Park is only for collection of already purchased tickets. People can not turn up on the day and pay for tickets on the spot – unlike at the Wimbledon Championships earlier this summer, when you can pay for a day pass on the grounds.
As a result, the tickets are only available online or over the phone as and when they are released over the coming days.
But Mr Hollande made it clear that he disapproved of rich corporate clients being given free tickets which they did not use.
Most of the events in London have, so far, been blighted by rows of empty seats, with Mr Hollande pledging that this would not happen at a French Olympics.
Mr Hollande also enjoyed a joke at the expense of Prime Minister David Cameron, who had promised to roll out the ‘red carpet’ for French people escaping high taxes.
Pointing to the fact that France was currently beating Britain in the medals table, Mr Hollande said: ‘The British have rolled out a red carpet for French athletes to win medals. I thank them very much for that, but the competition is not over.’
In another dig – this time at the
Euroscepticism of Mr Cameron’s Conservatives – Mr Hollande also said
that ‘it is the results of Europe that will count in the games.
‘We will put the French medals into the Europe pot, so that the British will be happy to be European.’
Referring to a 2024 bid, Mr Hollande said he would back it ‘if all the conditions of success are there.’
Before losing 2012 to London, Paris failed to win the 2008 Games, which were awarded to Beijing.
Half empty: Many of the events have begun in front of half full stadia. Here three spectators look all alone at Greenwich Park for the equestrain
Alternative: Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt is trying to find ways to resell unused tickets
Mr Hollande, who replaced the conservative Nicolas Sarkozy as French president in May, attended a number of events involving French athletes on Monday, before returning to Paris.
Mr Hollande is not the only one to notice the sparse population inside the Games arenas during events that should be packed to the rafters.
With events beginning on a number of occasions in half-empty stadia, Games organisers Locog and UK politicians – including Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt – are looking to address the ticket farce to pack out the venues for the remainder of the Olympics.
Military troops, teachers and local school children are already lined up to snap up some of the empty seats, and frustration has grown countrywide over the difficulty to get hold of the golden tickets and the huge number of empty seats.
As Mr Hollande alluded to, there are a large number of corporate seats, and part of the problem is that many sponsors and delegates are failing to show up to the events.
Mr Hunt hopes to impose a 30 minute rule on proceedings – namely that if you have a ticket and are not in your seat after half an hour of its commencement, you will lose it to be resold.
The Culture Secretary is also seeking to obtain more tickets from international sports federations for resale to the public, and told BBC Radio 4 they had received 3,000 extra tickets already.
He said: ‘We’re looking at whether we are able to do it, but we are hosting this event under a contractual arrangement that we have with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and sports federations and so we do have to respect what we’ve agreed to contractually in order to get London to host the Games.’
Frustration: David Cameron says he shares the public’s frustration at the poorly organised ticketing at the Games
Mr Hunt added: ‘What we’re saying to the IOC and to the international sports federations is if you’re not going to use them, could we have as many possible back because of course we’ve got lots of members of the public who would dearly love to go.
‘We want to be completely upfront with the public, this is a negotiation, we don’t have a right to demand these back.
‘In fact contractually these seats do belong to the international sports federations and to the IOC, but we got 3,000 back last night, including 600 for the gymnastics.’
Mr Cameron responded to Mr Hollande’s comments during a visit to Glasgow to promote “the Games legacy” and to back the city’s bid for the 2018 Youth Olympics.
‘There are French medals and there are some British medals too,’ he said.
On Mr Hollande’s claim that many Olympics events are not full to capacity because ‘there are simply too many corporate seats’, Mr Cameron insisted: ‘I think there has been a bit of a misunderstanding about the empty seats.
‘Of course, those seats are not reserved for businesses or corporate guests, those seats are reserved for athletes and sports officials from around the world, and we are doing everything we can to make sure that unused seats are made available to volunteers, members of the armed services personnel, and we are also putting more of these seats on sale.’
Jackie Brock-Doyle, organiser Locog’s
communications director, said another 3,800 tickets went on sale last
night across 30 sessions in 15 sports and ‘almost all of them had gone
by this morning’.
Asked if there would be around 3,800
tickets released every day, Ms Brock-Doyle said: ‘No, I do not think we
should assume we are going to get to 3,800 every time and obviously, as
we get closer to the finals, there will be less availability.
‘It is day by day and it depends
on what sessions are available and also what matches are being played.
No problem: Locog have said that there was no problem with the ticketing at last night’s hockey
Team GB managed to beat Argentina comprehensively with a 4-1 victory
More than 2million turn out for opening three days of Olympics, claims Locog
More than two million spectators turned out to watch the first three days of London 2012, organisers said today.
Some 856,000 fans, including the football crowds and a ‘conservative’ estimate of 500,000 for the road race, watched on Saturday, with a further 900,000 turning out on Sunday, Locog said.
A further 370,000 spectators watched yesterday, meaning attendee rates for the three days were 86 per cent, 92 per cent and 88 per cent respectively.
Union flag-waving fans, many with their faces painted, lined the streets between Surrey and London as the men’s and women’s cycling road races took place at the weekend.
The party atmosphere on The Mall for the final straight on Sunday, where fans stood 10-deep in places, was boosted when Britain’s Lizzie Armitstead won silver, getting Team GB off the mark in the medals table.
As organiser Locog continued to try to resolve the row over empty seats in venues, particularly in accredited stands reserved for athletes’ friends and family, sports’ bodies and sponsors, it said a further 3,800 tickets went on sale last night.
Jackie Brock-Doyle, organiser Locog’s communications director, said “almost all” of these tickets for 30 sessions of 15 sports had gone by this morning.
‘I do not think we should assume we are going to get to 3,800 every time and obviously, as we get closer to the finals, there will be less availability,’ she said.
‘It is day-by-day and it depends on what sessions are available and also what matches are being played.’
Fans would also be able to print their tickets at home after buying them online in future, organisers Locog said.
Asked why tickets were not being sold at box offices, Ms Brock-Doyle added: “Mainly because we are selling everything online and we are getting quite long queues of people who are wanting to wait until the tickets become available; they are not becoming available, so it is much easier for us to use the box offices as a collection point.
‘We are also going to start, at some venues, print-at-home.
‘So with NGA (North Greenwich Arena) for the gymnastics, as well as the Olympic Park venues and Earls Court, we are going to have a print-at-home ticket so people can print at home and go straight away.’
She added: ‘There’s too many people otherwise.’
Troops are also being offered the chance to take up empty seats at the last minute, along with schoolchildren and teachers from the local area.
‘A good example was hockey yesterday – Team GB, all accredited seating gone, wasn’t an issue.
‘The same with on Sunday when we had the Dream Team playing. But we saw yesterday on hockey that actually most of the British spectators also left after the GB team, so it really is going match by match where we can to see how we can get it.’
She added: ‘We made a promise, as you know, at the very beginning that 75 per cent of tickets would go to the British public.
‘We also said after we saw the demand that if people had tickets that they wanted to return we would try and make sure the British public had access to them, and that is what we do.
‘The box offices we have are primarily there to pick up tickets that have been bought online.’
Meanwhile, the
British Olympic Association called on the International Olympic
Committee today to completely revamp its ticketing policy for future
Games.
London 2012 has
become the latest Olympics to be plagued by empty seats in sold-out
events, leading to criticism of the London Organising Committee of the
Olympic and Paralympic Games.
In full force? There were a lot of empty seats at the Aquatics Centre yesterday evening
Showing support: According to Locog, two million people have turned up for the first three days of events
BOA
chairman Lord Moynihan insisted this morning it was ‘time to stop the
blame game’, urging the IOC to learn from a problem he said had also
dogged the previous three Games in Sydney, Athens and Beijing.
Lord Moynihan said: ‘It’s time to stop the blame game and also to recognise that this is such a major and complex issue.
‘Moving forwards, this is an issue that I hope the IOC will take a lead on.
‘This is an opportunity for the IOC to put in place an overall ticketing policy that can be improved at each Games.’
He added: ‘This requires huge investment. We’re not talking £100 million-£200 million.
‘The IOC have now got to take the lead and make sure the investment is in place for a state-of-the-art ticketing policy.
‘It
is our view that Locog are working exceptionally hard to try to sort
out as many of the challenges associated with ticketing as possible.
‘It’s so important for the host country, the host city, to get this right.’
The BOA has yet to raise the issue with the IOC but is planning to do at its post-Olympics debriefing.
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The IOC lays down the ticketing policy, not the host nation.
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== And why would we car what some third rate politician with the IQ of a pickled egg
from a second rate country
like France says ? – John, , East Midlands, == LOL good to see the failed state boneheads hard at work
sculpting their gems of priceless wit. FYI John, Hollande
studied at the HEC Paris, the Institut d’Études Politiques
de Paris (Paris Institute of Political Studies), graduating in 1980 from the
École nationale d’administration, all colleges where none of your British
tory sleazeballs would even get to sit the entrance exam.
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How did we ever let them get away with corporate sponsors like MacDonald and Pepsi who sponsor obesity and diabetes so that their pals in the Pharmaceuotcal buisness can sell mor harmful drugs ?. Welcome to the new corporate UK and its unscrupulous promoters in Westminster.
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How many Francs wil it cost for France to host the Olympics?
They will be bankrupt by then, and as the Euro won’t exist, they are going to have to pay in Francs…..
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Let’s hope France is out of recession and the French are ALL paying their taxes by then eh?
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Yvonne, West Midlands, UK, 31/7/2012 22:42 Well you know what they say Yvonne “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” obviously you are rattling somebody’s cage. Good for you- A Cynic, Who see things as they are, 31/7/2012 22:33 ******************************** Thanks! But I think you may be right and I may have rattled someone’s cage but it’s quite strange to have comments appear in your name when you haven’t made them only to have someone else comments back on them, Lol.
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Enough about empty seats. If the people who were given these seats have no need to use them, then just offer the seats at a knock down price to the people hanging around outside 15 minutes after the events have started and to heck with the FREE ticket holders if they turn up after this.
Why all the talk from the organisers and no concrete or firm action!!! Instead they are protecting these ***ts!!!! Name and shame the lot should be the organiser’s motto, if they don’t want the flack on their doorstep.
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Hollande is quite right. Too much attention lavished on corporates, businesses, and the lickspittles of the IOC. Far too little attention given to the public. And to cap it all, Coe and Hunt in complete, smarmy denial. Terrible.- Yvonne, West Midlands, 31/7/2012 11:46 ********************************** Sorry to disappoint but this is not one of my comments, it doesn’t even sound like one of my comments and has happened several times over the last few days so someone is obviously having a laugh, well done to whoever it is as it’s a well known fact that simple things please simple minds.
– Yvonne, West Midlands, UK, 31/7/2012 22:42
Well you know what they say Yvonne “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” obviously you are rattling somebody’s cage. Good for you
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Hollande is quite right. Too much attention lavished on corporates, businesses, and the lickspittles of the IOC. Far too little attention given to the public. And to cap it all, Coe and Hunt in complete, smarmy denial. Terrible.- Yvonne, West Midlands, 31/7/2012 11:46 ********************************** Sorry to disappoint but this is not one of my comments, it doesn’t even sound like one of my comments and has happened several times over the last few days so someone is obviously having a laugh, well done to whoever it is as it’s a well known fact that simple things please simple minds.
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What a very smug rich Socialiste this very PC President is turning out to be. Makes sure he turns up for his Corporate seat though doesn’t he? Hasn’t he got anything better to do like refereeing the fight between his girlfriend, ex-partner their son?
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