IOC plans crackdown on touts 21/08/2008 |
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The International Olympic Committee is to launch an investigation into suspicions that National Olympic Committee officials have been corruptly selling tickets. The Games' organisers, Bocog, said all 6.8m tickets had been sold but empty seats across all the venues have exposed a ticketing disaster to the IOC. In a crackdown on scalpers the Chinese authorities have arrested touts and confiscated tickets.
Bocog's secretary-general, Wang Wei, appeared to be hinting that the fault for the touting epidemic lies with the NOCs. In response to a question on scalping, Wang revealed that applications for tickets from the world's NOCs had risen 60% against Athens levels.
The IOC will attempt to uncover how the tickets fell into the hands of the touts. "We were given a breakdown of the tickets sold to the general public and the NOCs," said an IOC spokeswoman.
Although the IOC says "clear breaches" will "be taken seriously", establishing evidence is the harder part as there is no fail-safe means through which to discover where the tickets came from. That should change for London 2012 where organisers intend to involve the security services to combat ticket scalping.
(Source: Guardian.co.uk)
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