London 2012 Olympic Games: ticket prices announced: press conference

London 2012 Olympic Games: ticket prices announced: press conference; Paul Deighton (Chief Executive Officer, LOCOG) speech SOT - Overview of pricing structure ... 75 per cent are available to the public through the application process from March 2011 .... Now we've deliberately structured our pricing so we can ensure whilst we've got higher priced tickets, they're there in order to provide the balance so we've got the availability of millions of tickets available at lower prices ... 90 per cent of our tickets will cost 100 pounds or less ... two thirds are 50 pounds or less ... 30 per cent of the total will cost 20 pounds or less.... Now crucially those tickets will be available in every single one of our 26 sports ... Now what I'll do is run you through a few examples of prices for specific sports .... - Outlines pricing for badminton ... - Men's hundred metre final ... starts at 50 pounds the most expensive is 750 pounds / Most expensive seat you'll be able to buy at the Olympic Games ... - The other one you want to know about is the tickets for the opening ceremony. They'll range from 20.12 to 2012 pounds ... Every ticket includes a travel card... plenty of services and crucially that people can book train tickets in plenty of time ... working on pricing deals...and of course we've managed to absorb January VAT rise in pur pricing - Have worked hard to ensure includes wide range and real value ... affordable as possible to as many people as possible... Ticket reuse scheme ... if people leave early we'll zap the ticket...and similarly we'll have a ticket resale...get people to the games. - Now our vision has always been to inspire...a pay your age scheme...that adds up to about 1.3 million tickets. So young people under the age of 16 and under will have to pay their age...Scheme number two is called ticket share...it's a great programme and will see tickets go to schools and kids around the country...100,000 tickets ... CUTAWAY shots of screen ...
London 2012 Olympic Games: ticket prices announced: press conference; Paul Deighton (Chief Executive Officer, LOCOG) speech SOT - Overview of pricing structure ... 75 per cent are available to the public through the application process from March 2011 .... Now we've deliberately structured our pricing so we can ensure whilst we've got higher priced tickets, they're there in order to provide the balance so we've got the availability of millions of tickets available at lower prices ... 90 per cent of our tickets will cost 100 pounds or less ... two thirds are 50 pounds or less ... 30 per cent of the total will cost 20 pounds or less.... Now crucially those tickets will be available in every single one of our 26 sports ... Now what I'll do is run you through a few examples of prices for specific sports .... - Outlines pricing for badminton ... - Men's hundred metre final ... starts at 50 pounds the most expensive is 750 pounds / Most expensive seat you'll be able to buy at the Olympic Games ... - The other one you want to know about is the tickets for the opening ceremony. They'll range from 20.12 to 2012 pounds ... Every ticket includes a travel card... plenty of services and crucially that people can book train tickets in plenty of time ... working on pricing deals...and of course we've managed to absorb January VAT rise in pur pricing - Have worked hard to ensure includes wide range and real value ... affordable as possible to as many people as possible... Ticket reuse scheme ... if people leave early we'll zap the ticket...and similarly we'll have a ticket resale...get people to the games. - Now our vision has always been to inspire...a pay your age scheme...that adds up to about 1.3 million tickets. So young people under the age of 16 and under will have to pay their age...Scheme number two is called ticket share...it's a great programme and will see tickets go to schools and kids around the country...100,000 tickets ... CUTAWAY shots of screen ...
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