Olympic tickets

[HarryO]

We applied for 11 events - including opening and closing ceremonies - and got Mountain Biking in Essex!
Good news is we can now go to Creoso

[Tatty]

Must agree with JEP. We didn't bother to apply for tickets - will just go to see the road races arond London/Leith Hill

[Gross]

If any of you folks out there get some basketball tickets and are not too happy then I'll take them off your hands.... know a small nation that will be desperate.... particularly if the final is Lietuva v USA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P11F0R8ON6I

[Safety]

I have not applied for any. Plan was to go and watch some of the free events, as accomodation in/around London is going to stretch my budgets as it is. However, I have since found that most of the Triathlon (typically a free event) is ticketed, and despite the Cycling Road Race being on open roads, the best spectator bit is possibly going to be fenced off to spectators. (Not Impressed). Looks like I could be watching just the cycling time trial, or investing the money in a big HD TV and staying in.

[andypat]

Not being able to access my credit card online (since I had to use my old visa card) I still dont know if I got any! Would it have been too tricky to send out an email at the time of taking the money (or not)?

We've decided that if we dont get any we are not applying at the second offering. Croeso it is!

[Kitch]

still plenty of hockey tickets if you fancy a bit more folks.
then theres wrestling
and football

[frog]

I think 1 morning of hockey is as much as I can face. It's a long way to go for 1 hockey session though. The kayaking in August is falling through as they are only letting people do the competency paddle test and go on the water at weekends and I've booked our flights back on a Thursday. Looks like that will have to be another trip, the novelty of it may have worn off by then and it be easier to book places.
2/3 of people not getting anything is worse that they said earlier. I think people should have got a maximum number of sessions, and they maybe could have had some system so people who had to travel didn't just get 1 session as I probably wouldn't have bothered applying if I knew I'd just get 1.
Everyone getting 4 sessions and the applicants having to have a list of 10 sessions with 4 of these being allocated and either getting 4 sessions or none would have made more sense to me. People who just wanted 1 session could have 1, but I suspect alot of people would like 4 if they are travelling.

[awk]

Owing to a family c*ck up, I only went on line on the last night, so just got applications in for cycling and hockey before the system hung up completely. Looking at the amounts debited, looks like we got the Women's 5-6/11-12 place matches, plus one of the Men's or Women's gold medal matches, so pretty content with that, as offspring and I are both fairly avid hockey watchers/ex-players. We've also got accommodation booked to cover the cycling time trials and Women's triathlon.

TBH, much more concerned, when it comes to cycling, this prospect excites me just as much:
http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/y ... art-30406/

[andypat]

We didnt get any of our meagre requests - as expected I suppose.

I think where the system fell down for people up here in Scotland is that it totally fails to allow you to plan anything. We had hoped to use it as our holiday in 2012. I dont know what we'd have done if we'd only got 1 event say - happier not to have got any now. Not much incentive to go online to pick up the dregs of whats left.

[Red Adder]

For anyone wishing to recce the MB area HAVOC have an informal interclub event v. Chig at Hadleigh Country Park on 23rd July.

[Kitch]

on the morning of the 6th August we will be in the Olympic stadium watching
Men's Discus Throw Qualifying Round - Group A
Women's 100m Hurdles Round 1
Women's Shot Put Qualifying Rounds
Men's 800m Round 1
Men's Discus Throw Qualifying Round - Group B
Women's 1500m Round 1

On the morning of the 8th August we will be in the Olympic stadium watching
Women's Hammer Throw Qualifying Round - Group A
Men's Pole Vault Qualifying Rounds - Groups A & B
Men's Decathlon 100m
Men's 5000m Round 1
Men's Decathlon Long Jump
Women's Hammer Throw Qualifying Round - Group B
Women's 800m Round 1
Men's Decathlon Shot Put

On the evening of the 10th of August we will be in the Olympic stadium watching
Men's Pole Vault Final
Women's 4 x 400m Relay Round 1
Men's Decathlon Victory Ceremony
Women's Hammer Throw Final
Men's 4 x 100m Relay Round 1
Women's 5000m Final
Women's Javelin Throw Victory Ceremony
Women's 4 x 100m Relay Final
Women's 1500m Final
Women's 5000m Victory Ceremony
Men's 4 x 400m Relay Final
Women's Hammer Throw Victory Ceremony
Women's 4 x 100m Relay Victory Ceremony

yeah baby, yeah!

[Spookster]

On the evening of the 10th of August we will be in the Olympic stadium watching
Men's Pole Vault Final
Women's 4 x 400m Relay Round 1
Men's Decathlon Victory Ceremony
Women's Hammer Throw Final
Men's 4 x 100m Relay Round 1
Women's 5000m Final
Women's Javelin Throw Victory Ceremony
Women's 4 x 100m Relay Final
Women's 1500m Final
Women's 5000m Victory Ceremony
Men's 4 x 400m Relay Final
Women's Hammer Throw Victory Ceremony
Women's 4 x 100m Relay Victory Ceremony

yeah baby, yeah!

Well, we'll see you there then...

[Mrs H]

You do know everyone hates you now (except me i didn't apply for any)

[mappingmum]

I've got a hockey session 8:30am on 1st Aug. 4 tickets, 2 adults, 2 children. Not going to travel for one event. Anyone interested?

[awk]

On the evening of the 10th of August we will be in the Olympic stadium ...
yeah baby, yeah!

Well, we'll see you there then...

Great tickets to get!
We'll be just round the corner that evening, watching the women's hockey final. Maybe not quite as good, but we're still happy with those!