London 2012. Worth the money?

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Permalink Reply by nick mc on March 17, 2011 at 22:32

Well, I went to Manchester recently to see the World Cup Finale, £24 for all of Sunday, but a lot of Keirin qualifiers in morning. And £75 train ticket and then £100 for a dodgy hotel room, after original one was flooded out, so £50 for 3.5 hours whilst expensive would be cheaper than that!

 

However is it worth it, is another question? Certainly the atmosphere was fantastic and can't be reproduced on the TV. Saw Boardman set the world record for the Pursuit some years ago, the noise levels were unbelievable, you'd need a volume setting of 11 on your telly to reproduce that!

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Permalink Reply by steve winder on March 18, 2011 at 16:33

personally i would say it is worth the money in the sense that people will be prepared to pay a lot more than that to see the track cycling. It is predicted to be the olympic sport where demand most outstrips ticket supply. If they auctioned off all the tickets then i think the average price they would sell them for would be much higher than 50 quid.

having said that, it would have been nice if they could have allocated some tickets to less fairweather cycling fans, perhaps by allocating some to each cycle club in the same way that wimbledon tennis tickets and some football tickets are done.

It's going to be a somewhat tricky process applying for the tickets as well as there is a risk that you apply only for one session and get nothing, but also a risk that you apply for everything and get too many. fwiw I'm going for the latter approach as i really dont anticipate any problems in reselling unwanted ones.

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