Special report:
2008 Olympic
Games
BEIJING, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- Olympic ticket sales will
resume next month and tickets will be allocated by a random draw after huge
demand forced the suspension of sales on a first come, first-serve basis last
week, organizers said on Monday.
Residents of mainland China can submit applications
to buy the 1.8 million tickets between Dec. 10 and Dec. 30, according to a
statement posted on BOCOG's official website (www.beijing2008.cn).
The date of the lottery would be announced later,
said the statement.
"The ticketing policy modifications aim to reflect a
people-oriented policy and to adhere to principles of fairness, impartiality,
and convenience to the public," BOCOG said in the statement.
A total of seven million tickets for the Aug. 8-24
Games are available to the general public with nearly three quarters reserved
for domestic sales.
Only 43,000 tickets were sold last week. The first
batch of 1.6million tickets were allocated by lottery earlier this year.
Booking system crashes under huge
demand for Olympic tickets
BEIJING, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- The booking system crashed
under "unexpected" huge demand for the second batch of Olympic tickets when
sales started on Tuesday morning.
According to the Beijing Olympic Ticketing Center, some
9,000 tickets were sold out within two hours after the 1.85 million tickets went
on sale at 9 a.m., while the official ticketing website
(www.tickets.beijing2008.cn) saw eight million hits in the first hour and more
than 200,000 orders were received every second. Full story
1.85 million Olympic tickets to go on
sale next week
BEIJING, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- About 1.85 million tickets
for the 2008 Olympic Games will go on sale as the second round of booking starts
Tuesday, the Beijing Olympics Organizing Committee (BOCOG) said.
"The tickets will be sold on the 'first come, first serve'
basis in this stage," Rong Jun, head of BOCOG's ticketing center, told reporters
Saturday. Full story
