Olympic Winter Games Tickets
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There will be two sets of Winter Games in 2010. First up,
Feb. 12-28, will be the 21st Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, a quick return
to North America after a sojourn in Italy in 2006. No need to unpack the
cold-weather clothes, because four months later, in the midst of winter in the
southern hemisphere, will be the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Ever since the
International Olympic Committee decided to stagger the Summer and Winter Games
after 1992, the frozen sports have been played in the same year as the World
Cup, giving fans two major events to watch.
There will be 86 events spanning seven sports around Vancouver and at the
Whistler ski area, a two-hour drive north. Despite the economy, ticket demand
has not gone downhill. According to U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) spokeswoman
Nicole Saunches, "Ticket demand has been high, as you would expect with the
Games right across the border. That's been great for Vancouver and the Games in
general."
Americans have already received the largest allotment of tickets ever for the
U.S. in a non hosted Winter Games, and they want more. Mark Lewis, president of
Jet Set Sports, whose CoSport subsidiary handles ticketing for the USOC, says
more than 80,000 individual tickets have been sold so far. The final phase of
ticket sales will being in mid-September, and fans who want tickets should go to
www.cosport.com "It's certainly not too late," says Lewis. Nor is it too late to
book hotel reservations. "There will be rooms available, and more are opening
up," says Walt Judas, vice president of Tourism Vancouver, noting that inventory
is being released by organizers and companies that blocked many of the 25,000
rooms in metro Vancouver early on. |
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