Tickets to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games will go on sale in exactly one year: October 11, 2008.
Approximately 1.6 million tickets will be available, the Vancouver organizing committee (VANOC) is reporting. 100,000 tickets will be priced at $25. Half of all tickets are priced at $100 or less and Opening and Closing Ceremonies tickets, ranging from $175 to $1,100, will be offered at prices lower than the Ceremonies tickets at the Torino 2006 Winter Games and the Salt Lake 2002 Winter Games.
VANOC claims the ticket buying process will be simple and user friendly. It will be staged in phases and will, in some cases, include lotteries to distribute tickets to Olympic events where the demand for tickets exceeds the supply.
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As is required of all Olympic Organizing Committees, approximately 30 per cent of the tickets will be held for key partners that participate directly in the staging of the Games – commonly referred to as the Olympic Family.
FoMoInfo: vancouver2010.com
