Olympics high ticket prices slammed

While London Olympics organizers claimed that the high prices subsidize the cheap seats, last night on June 7, furious fans hit out at the expensive “prestige tickets” on offer, saying that hundreds of thousands have been left ticketless.

Prices start at £295 to see the canoeing, but they go up to £1,800 for a seat at the Olympics Stadium.

“We were told it was going to be the Games for the people. But I didn’t realise they were talking about people with big wallets and cash to burn,” Paul Roberts from Essex told The Sun.

Prestige Ticketing Company, a subsidiary of French caterer Sodexo, was given 80,000 tickets for the Olympics and Paralympics to sell, but a fifth are still not sold.

“The Olympics is an event for the people of Great Britain, it should not be an event for the rich,” said Sarah Willingham of letssavesomemoney.com.

However, a Prestige spokesman said, “The income from these programmes provides a vital source of revenue that makes the Games more accessible.”

In general, up to now, over 7 million tickets for the Olympics and 1.25 million for the Paralympics have been sold, but about 3 million tickets are still not sold.

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