VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) Anyone hoping to grab some of
the last remaining tickets for the 2010 Winter Games will have to
wait until next Saturday.
Technical problems hit the ticket Web site and prevented the
sale of any of the 100,000 tickets that were to be available at 1
p.m. EST Saturday, said Renee Smith-Valade, vice president of
communications for the Vancouver Olympic organizing committee.
Ticket buyers trying to log onto the Web site only got a Google
message saying the link appeared to be broken. The committee hopes
to have the technical issues ironed out so the ticket sale can
begin next week.
The tickets are for all events in the Vancouver area, including
gold-medal hockey and the opening and closing ceremonies.
Tickets for events in Whistler, B.C., are not on sale because
the transportation system can't handle any more people coming from
outside the area.
About 1.6 million tickets overall are being sold, and organizers
are making sure 70 percent of those go to the public.
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