2012 Olympic Athletics Days - which one?

Brianderunner

Truman Burbank wrote: »

Agree. The Other Half said to get one and they'd stay at home :P. Just can't justify 2 tickets at this price (€752). I'd happily go on my own, but I'd literally be on my own the duration! These are corporate prices, which will end up being bought by friends/family of athletes (who have no choice either). Plan B (after I had secured several nights of Athletic tickets!!!) was to get the Boxing Final in the hope Katie Taylor would get thru, and for which I previously applied. Might look for that alternative and mosey around London for a couple of days.

Oh i'd happily go with you, or anyone else if they have a ticket for me, but at the right price. Living in London makes me very flexible as regards that. I'm going to Oslo and Zurich for 50 euro each, 7 times cheaper than those cat B tickets. There's once in a lifetime and theres sanity. My Cat b ticket in the Athens olympics cost me 70 euro

I have Katie Taylor semi and final tickets. Would trade them for athletics in a heartbeat though.

robinph

Yep, £150 was a just about justifiable price for an evening session with finals on, but not for other sessions. Would have stretched a bit further in price for just me if it was a very prime seat, but not when you are trying to buy 4 at a time. The suggestion was made to the brother that I'd be able to sell on the tickets if he wasn't happy with splashing out for the whole family at that price...he said words to the effect of "no *&% chance I'm giving those up for someone else".

I've now spent a total of €504 (from the French and Dutch sites) plus another £606 (from the UK site) for 15 tickets in 5 different events at 6 different sessions. All but four of those 15 were tickets in the cheapest price band though. Will just try for a couple of the Box Hill cycling tickets, but I'm now done with the ticket buying otherwise.

Pisco Sour

Brianderunner wrote: »

Oh i'd happily go with you, or anyone else if they have a ticket for me, but at the right price. Living in London makes me very flexible as regards that. I'm going to Oslo and Zurich for 50 euro each, 7 times cheaper than those cat B tickets. There's once in a lifetime and theres sanity. My Cat b ticket in the Athens olympics cost me 70 euro

I have Katie Taylor semi and final tickets. Would trade them for athletics in a heartbeat though.

Agreed. I'd also gladly go with you if you got tickets, but only can afford Cat c,d or e. I refuse to pay anymore. A cat B ticket for one evening session costs more than the full 8 days, morning and evening cost me in Daegu! It's just not worth that. No way.

An english girl I met travelling very kindly gave me access to her account to try buy tickets. I thought I had got hold of 4 tuesday evening 50 pound tickets at one point but when I clicked to "request tickets" it told me there was none. Yet they are still listing Cat E for Monday and Tuesday nites. Why list that if there are none available? The sceptic in me reckons they have those fake Cat E tickets listed to get people in, and then when they get frustrated they will give up and just buy A or B. Makes perfect business sense.

No joy for me anyway....again.

robinph

04072511 wrote: »

Agreed. I'd also gladly go with you if you got tickets, but only can afford Cat c,d or e. I refuse to pay anymore. A cat B ticket for one evening session costs more than the full 8 days, morning and evening cost me in Daegu! It's just not worth that. No way.

An english girl I met travelling very kindly gave me access to her account to try buy tickets. I thought I had got hold of 4 tuesday evening 50 pound tickets at one point but when I clicked to "request tickets" it told me there was none. Yet they are still listing Cat E for Monday and Tuesday nites. Why list that if there are none available? The sceptic in me reckons they have those fake Cat E tickets listed to get people in, and then when they get frustrated they will give up and just buy A or B. Makes perfect business sense.

No joy for me anyway....again.

When I was going through the purchase on Friday it only let me select the one price band of tickets anyway, it wasn't even listing the others. They must have changed something in the way it's working since then.

G-Money

Brianderunner wrote: »

I'm going to Oslo and Zurich for 50 euro each.

Diamond League?

Brianderunner

G-Money wrote: »

Brianderunner wrote: »

I'm going to Oslo and Zurich for 50 euro each.

Diamond League?

Yep, been watching them on tv for far too long. Only been to 4 diamond/golden league meetings up to now.

G-Money

Brianderunner wrote: »

Yep, been watching them on tv for far too long. Only been to 4 diamond/golden league meetings up to now.

Was supposed to go to Rome last year myself but had to give it a miss. Wouldn't mind to heading to a few of the foreign ones myself. Although preferably the events with the 5000m. I think the Eugene DL meeting is over two days or something and has a 10,000m or 30,000m race on the Friday or something?

Brianderunner

G-Money wrote: »

Brianderunner wrote: »

Yep, been watching them on tv for far too long. Only been to 4 diamond/golden league meetings up to now.

Was supposed to go to Rome last year myself but had to give it a miss. Wouldn't mind to heading to a few of the foreign ones myself. Although preferably the events with the 5000m. I think the Eugene DL meeting is over two days or something and has a 10,000m or 30,000m race on the Friday or something?

Yep, Eugene is top of the list for 2013 Would love to be there this year.

Zurich deffo looks the best though, cant wait for that one. Got priority tickets for it last week.

G-Money

Brianderunner wrote: »

Yep, Eugene is top of the list for 2013 Would love to be there this year.

Zurich deffo looks the best though, cant wait for that one. Got priority tickets for it last week.

Eugene would be a good one. This year on the Friday night, they're hosting the Olympic 10,000 qualifying event for the Kenyan's. Unfortunately I don't think the Friday night even is televised

runjb

I'm heading to Diamond League in Rome in a few weeks. Good quality tickets only 15 euro each, great value and location. With a crowd close to 50000 last year, there will be another great atmosphere and a whole list of star names, that would beat any athletic session during the Olympics.

For the Olympics it'll have to be the giant screen or the TV for me! Prices way too expensive IMO for class A or B tickets.

Truman Burbank

Brianderunner wrote: »

Oh i'd happily go with you, or anyone else if they have a ticket for me, but at the right price. Living in London makes me very flexible as regards that. I'm going to Oslo and Zurich for 50 euro each, 7 times cheaper than those cat B tickets. There's once in a lifetime and theres sanity. My Cat b ticket in the Athens olympics cost me 70 euro

I have Katie Taylor semi and final tickets. Would trade them for athletics in a heartbeat though.

Yes, I still have my sanity. Debatable perhaps, but I like to think it's there. I'm a real cheap-skate - got all Cat C for the week in Athens, then sometimes strolled into Cat A empty corporate section mid-evening just cos. Those Cat C were really great seats. It was different back then!

Great re your upcoming trips, hard to get away here and am just a fly-on-the-wall fan so (sadly to real supporters) end up at cup-final grandiose events. Am broken thou, so may take your guidance. Re "Katie Taylor" tickets, the method in my madness was to perhaps barter these, thou clearly there is no one to barter with, and as I don't even have any yet there is nothing to barter with. Will apply on Wednesday and would be happy to support her too. But need a 2nd event.

Giraldilla

I've tickets for the men's 50k walk only so I'm planning to soak up the Olympic atmosphere in Hyde Park for a couple of days beforehand. Tickets for guaranteed entry to Hyde Park and Victoria Park Olympics screenings (BT London Live) have just gone on sale this morning. Tickets are free and are available through Ticketmaster. My fall-back option if no other event tickets are forthcoming.

Truman Burbank

Got 4 Women's Boxing Final tickets on Thurs. Aug. 9th. Absolutely thrilled to be going! And good luck to Katie!

glassmullan

Giraldilla wrote: »

I've tickets for the men's 50k walk only so I'm planning to soak up the Olympic atmosphere in Hyde Park for a couple of days beforehand. Tickets for guaranteed entry to Hyde Park and Victoria Park Olympics screenings (BT London Live) have just gone on sale this morning. Tickets are free and are available through Ticketmaster. My fall-back option if no other event tickets are forthcoming.

Cheers for that, very helpfully, its free so worth a go while there

glassmullan

Truman Burbank wrote: »

Got 4 Women's Boxing Final tickets on Thurs. Aug. 9th. Absolutely thrilled to be going! And good luck to Katie!

That's Brilliant!! congrats

Is anyone buying tickets for the afternoon boxing semi session (13:30-16:00) on the Friday 10th August??? If you are and able to buy two extra, I will cover all costs... please please please

Rocko

Can you post a link to the free tickets website??

As I can't seem to find it on ticketmaster

glassmullan

Rocko wrote: »

Can you post a link to the free tickets website??

As I can't seem to find it on ticketmaster

http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/BT-London-Live-tickets/artist/1665645#artist_table_focus

Pisco Sour

Giraldilla wrote: »

I've tickets for the men's 50k walk only so I'm planning to soak up the Olympic atmosphere in Hyde Park for a couple of days beforehand. Tickets for guaranteed entry to Hyde Park and Victoria Park Olympics screenings (BT London Live) have just gone on sale this morning. Tickets are free and are available through Ticketmaster. My fall-back option if no other event tickets are forthcoming.

:eek: You know it's free right?

Brianderunner

The Hyde Park thing is not totally free. £3.50 booking fee. Ticketmaster with their finger in every pie as always :rolleyes:

Giraldilla

04072511 wrote: »

:eek: You know it's free right?

Yep, but like the marathon and other race walk events, tickets are required for some stretches of the route. It was the only return on my £800+ application for athletics tickets!

Pisco Sour

Giraldilla wrote: »

Yep, but like the marathon and other race walk events, tickets are required for some stretches of the route. It was the only return on my £800+ application for athletics tickets!

:eek: I'm as big a Rob fan as anybody, but I think I'd rather watch him challenge for a medal from 100m away from the finish line for free than pay Coe anymore money for the luxury of seeing it from a slightly better angle.

Giraldilla

04072511 wrote: »

:eek: I'm as big a Rob fan as anybody, but I think I'd rather watch him challenge for a medal from 100m away from the finish line for free than pay Coe anymore money for the luxury of seeing it from a slightly better angle.

Yea, I'd agree and be standing beside you if I didn't already have tickets

G-Money

Tickets through a Spanish site on sale tomorrow.

From @Pearcesport on Twitter:

Big news for EU Olympic ticket hunters. Spanish sale 10am UK time tomorrow will include athletics, cycling, swimming http://coe.ticketpa.com

Pisco Sour

G-Money wrote: »

Tickets through a Spanish site on sale tomorrow.

From @Pearcesport on Twitter:

How many more times must we get our hopes up?

finbarrk

A lad here on Done Deal selling Athletics for August 10th. Dosen't say the price though.
http://www.donedeal.ie/for-sale/sporttickets/3371518

finbarrk

G-Money wrote: »

Tickets through a Spanish site on sale tomorrow.

From @Pearcesport on Twitter:

Judo and Fencing available. Thats brilliant.

Bambaata

Can anyone pass comment on what the best virtual visa debit card is (i.e. least fees). Pain in the hole that the one launched for the olys is now gone. Was hoping to try get some more this Wednesday but havent got a visa!

G-Money

More tickets on sale tomorrow, unfortunately no athletics tickets. You can click on the link to download a PDF with the sports that are available.

http://www.tickets.london2012.com/

Brianderunner

G-Money wrote: »

More tickets on sale tomorrow, unfortunately no athletics tickets. You can click on the link to download a PDF with the sports that are available.

http://www.tickets.london2012.com/[/QUOTE]

Difficult to believe there's no morning sessions but there you go. Only the joke sports left really.

G-Money

Brianderunner wrote: »

G-Money wrote: »

More tickets on sale tomorrow, unfortunately no athletics tickets. You can click on the link to download a PDF with the sports that are available.

http://www.tickets.london2012.com/[/QUOTE]

Difficult to believe there's no morning sessions but there you go. Only the joke sports left really.

I think there's some boxing tickets left but I've no idea what days or anything.

Dan man

G-Money wrote: »

Brianderunner wrote: »

I think there's some boxing tickets left but I've no idea what days or anything.

If your wondering what days the Irish lads will be on, here is the expected timetable:

DAY 1: Saturday 28th July
Men's Bantamweight Round of 32 (JJ Nevin unless he receives a bye)
Men's Middleweight Round of 32 (Darren O'Neill unless he receives a bye)

DAY 2: Sunday 29th July
Men's Welterweight Round of 32 (Adam Nolan unless he receives a bye)

DAY 3: Monday 30th July
Men's Flyweight Boxing Round of 32 (Michael Conlan unless he receives a bye)
Possibly Joe Ward in the light heavyweight as he stands a very good chance of getting the wildcard.

DAY 4: Tuesday 31st July
Men's Light-Flyweight (Paddy Barnes unless he receives a bye)

DAY 5: Wednesday 1st August
Men's Bantamweight Round of 16 (JJ Nevin)

DAY 6: Thursday 2nd August
Men's Middleweight Round of 16 (Darren O'Neill)

DAY 7: Friday 3rd August
Men's Flyweight Round of 16 (Michael Conlan)
Men's Welterweight Round of 16 (Adam Nolan)

DAY 8: Saturday 4th August
Men's Light Flyweight Round of 16 (Paddy Barnes)
Possibly Joe Ward in light-heavy round of 16 also

DAY 9: Sunday 5th August
Evening Session (20:30-22:30) Men's Bantamweight Quarter-Final Medal Matches (JJ Nevin)

DAY 10: Monday 6th August
Afternoon Session (13:30-16:30) Women's Lightweight Quarter-Final Medal Matches (Katie Taylor)
Afternoon Session (13:30-16:30) Men's Middlewight Quarter-Final Medal Matches (Darren O'Neill)

DAY 11: Tuesday 7th August
Evening Session: (20:30-22:30) Men's Flyweight Quarter-Final Medal Matches (Michael Conlan)
Evening Session: (20:30-22:30) Men's Welterweight Quarter-Final Medal Matches (Adam Nolan)

DAY 12: Wednesday 8th August
Afternoon Session: (13:30-15:00) Women's Lightweight Semi-Finals (Katie Taylor) chance to secure gold/silver
Evening Session: (20:30-23:30) Men's Light Flyweight Quarter-Final Medal Matches (Paddy Barnes)
Evening Session: (20:30-23:30) Men's Light Heavyweight Quarter-Final Medal Matches (possibly Joe Ward)

DAY 13: Thursday 9th August
Afternoon Session (16:30-18:00) Women's Lightweight Gold Medal Match (Katie Taylor)

DAY 14: Friday 10th August
Afternoon Session: (13:30-16:00) Men's Flyweight Semis - chance to secure at least silver (Paddy Barnes)
Afternoon Session: (13:30-16:00) Men's Bantamweight Semis - chance to secure at least silver (JJ Nevin)
Afternoon Session: (13:30-16:00) Men's Middleweight Semis (Darren O'Neill)
Evening Session: (20:30-23:00) Men's Flyweight Semis (Michael Conlan)
Evening Session: (20:30-23:00) Men's Welterweight Semis (Adam Nolan)
Evening Session: (20:30-23:00) Men's Light-Heavyweight Semis (possibly Joe Ward)

I presume final days are sold out? Remember all of the above depends on our boxers advancing through the rounds but the 2 sessions on Friday 10th August stand out as important from an Irish perspective if you can get tickets for them). But for the rounds of 32 and rounds of 16 it's impossible to know yet what sessions to buy for or whether our boxers will receive byes for the round of 32 so it's maybe wise to stay clear of those. Please double check though just in case I've made a mistake, I wouldn't want to lead anyone astray here.

glassmullan

Cheers "Dan man" that was very helpful, was able to buy 2 tickets for the boxing semi's and 2 for another event.

Dan man

glassmullan wrote: »

Cheers "Dan man" that was very helpful, was able to buy 2 tickets for the boxing semi's and 2 for another event.

No problem, hopefully some of our guys will get through their rounds now, you would imagine one or two will at least. Enjoy the experience, should be amazing.

Truman Burbank

If anyone's mates has bailed on them (thou I can't ask if you're bailing on yourself), then we (or me), would be delighted to accompany them to The Olympic Stadium for any of the last Thurs/Fri/Sat evening sessions...... especially those Categories £50 - £150! It would cut-out all that messy 'Olympic Ticket Resale' business, and sure we're all "friend(s)" so there's no chance of getting locked up in The Tower of London :cool:

• 17.2 Save as set out at clauses 17.3 and 17.4 below, Tickets are STRICTLY NON-TRANSFERABLE and MUST NOT BE SOLD nor advertised for sale whether on the internet, in newspapers or elsewhere.
• 17.3 If more than one Ticket is issued to a Purchaser, those Tickets may only be used by the Purchaser and a family member, friend or colleague who is known to the Purchaser personally and who is intended to accompany the Purchaser to a Session. The transfer of a Ticket in this manner shall not contravene clauses 17.1 and 17.2 PROVIDED THAT:
• 17.3.1 Such a transfer takes place without payment or benefit in excess of the face value of the Ticket

http://www.tickets.london2012.com/purchaseterms.html

robinph

Stupid ticket website.

Twice I've got through to having tickets reserved for the Box Hill cycling now, and then it fails on me when it gets to the payment page. :mad:

Back in the queue again now, but gone from being a 1 minute queue to 7 minutes to now being 15 minutes, before it will no doubt fail again.

Dan man

robinph wrote: »

Stupid ticket website.

Twice I've got through to having tickets reserved for the Box Hill cycling now, and then it fails on me when it gets to the payment page. :mad:

Back in the queue again now, but gone from being a 1 minute queue to 7 minutes to now being 15 minutes, before it will no doubt fail again.

It sounds head-wrecking!!....best of luck with the rest of the torture, hope you get some tickets after it all.

spurscormac

robinph wrote: »

Stupid ticket website.

Twice I've got through to having tickets reserved for the Box Hill cycling now, and then it fails on me when it gets to the payment page. :mad:

Back in the queue again now, but gone from being a 1 minute queue to 7 minutes to now being 15 minutes, before it will no doubt fail again.

Sounds like the similar torture I had trying to get tickets in the last round. Put them in the basket, request them, no tix available, then unable to remove them from basket to try another session as it was constantly timing out, and when I did get tix available the site would still time out on each step.
Over an hour later, eventually got something - best of luck in trying.

robinph

Got through on the phone after following some other frustration on twitter.

Think it may have been that the website couldn't cope with if you had already got tickets for another event in a previous booking, so the bloke on the phone created me another account.

So I now have:
Cycling - Mens Road Race
Basketball
Table Tennis
Beach Volleyball
Modern Pentathlon - Mens
Modern Pentathlon - Womens
Athletics - 1500m Mens final, 100mH Womens final

Truman Burbank

Won 4 tickets to the basketball
Slowly building up my bartering repertoire............not!

G-Money

More tickets going on sale on Friday it seems.

From @PearceSport

London 2012 announce that extra 43,000 tickets including Ceremonies, Athletics and Swimming to go on sale 1st come 1st served Friday 11am

robinph

I've got to pretend that I didn't see that post now. Can't be spending any more money on tickets.

Truman Burbank

G-Money wrote: »

More tickets going on sale on Friday it seems.

From @PearceSport

Looking for 2, will try for 4, 3rd time lucky, or maybe it's 4th

Ad on Donedeal selling 2 £95 women's boxing final tickets for €300 o.n.o EACH. I pressed 'report ad' saying the above and "ticket touting" and got the following standard response;

Hi X,

Thank you for contacting us.

I totally agree that touters like this are a nuisance. However it is very difficult for us to remove ads just because the item they are selling are over priced.

Please let me know if you have any other questions.

All the best,

Y.

:eek: Naive to assume that when sellers are paying €3 a pop anyone actually cares about the consumer

robinph

I'd refer them to this, and then maybe point London 2012 towards the ad as well:

http://www.tickets.london2012.com/about_resale.html

Truman Burbank

robinph wrote: »

I'd refer them to this, and then maybe point London 2012 towards the ad as well:

http://www.tickets.london2012.com/about_resale.html

I had sent them a 2nd 'report ad' from a different e-mail address, when I got that first reply, with the link and got the exact same reply (hence I knew it was 'standard'), and just to be sure I had offered the seller face value, by text, with the following reply, "I won't sell them for face value". Idiot.

Johnny_Fontane

In a 5 second boolean search on donedeal ad:

Her name is Susan Carry
She lives in 7 Oliver Plunkett Road, Kells, Co. Meath
Her mobile number is 0872348662

Knock into her one day and ask to see the tickets.....

Truman Burbank

"Damn. Th:cool:se meddling kids".

The_Boy_Wonder

French ticket reseller has some Athletics and Closing ceremony tickets on sale. Prices too rich for my blood as it's category A and AA. €600+

G-Money

Apparently Sportsworld.co.uk has some tickets on sale now too, I haven't checked out what they are.

jeffontour

I tried on the site now for some athletics tickets, no joy.

Will be travelling for the ladies boxing final session anyhow, hope Katie gets there as I'm hoping! But a couple of days away with my brother regardless will be a bit of craic.

Truman Burbank

http://www.moneymaxim.co.uk/olympic-how-can-i-sell-my-olympic-tickets