I only got tickets to one event in the ballot which I’ll now be passing on to friends as I no longer live in London and making a trip half way around the world for 5 now seems a bit ridiculous . Having bid for over 10 events from high demand sports like athletics and swimming through to lower demand ones like volleyball and waterpolo on a range of days I was surprised when I only got one set of tickets to women’s springboard diving and nothing else. Like many who had gone into the ballot I was surprised at the outcome.
No matter, having been to Olympics in Atlanta (1996), Sydney (2000) and Athens (2004), I resigned myself to the fact I’d enjoyed previous games and perhaps some lucky locals would have got the tickets.
Today though reading this article it reminded me that maybe only locals, olympic officals, media, sponsors and the athletes themselves will be going. Getting to the Olympics has become progressively more expensive, time consuming and complicated to organise, and many are discounting the idea of going without even trying. Coupled with this the potential that travellers avoid London (and the UK) in the lead up to the games is also a reality (the displacement factor).
I would love to go to the Olympics in London 2012 and have enjoyed my three prior Olympic trips but this time around unless I come into some tickets magically (LOCOG any spare tickets perhaps?) I think I will also have to give it a miss and join the billions who will only watch it on TV. Of course I’ll miss the atmosphere, melting pot of fellow travelers and the chance to see beach volleyball at Horses Guard Parade but looking forward perhaps Rio in 2016 is in my future.
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