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Book Olympic tickets now

(btmbeijing)
Updated: 2007-05-09 08:59




Chinese nationals and foreigners living in China can now book some of the
more than seven million tickets available for the 2008 Olympic Games, the
Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad said on
April 15.

Orders can be processed via a Web site (www.tickets.beijing2008.cn) or at
any of 1,000 designated Bank of China branches, but tickets will not be
delivered until June 2008. "All the tickets to the Opening and Closing
Ceremonies as well as half of the tickets to 28 sports are on offer in
the first phase of sales which will last until June 30," Rong Jun, head
of the Olympic Ticketing Center, said during a press briefing.

A second phase of domestic sales will begin in October 2007 and will run
through December 2007. Remaining available tickets from the first phase
and the other 50 percent of sports tickets reserved for the Chinese
public will be on sale during this period. The public can also book
tickets in phase two by calling the BOCOG ticketing call centre (+86 10
952008). Foreigners and residents of China��s Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan
will be able to buy Olympic tickets through their National Olympic
Committees or from designated outlets at the same price, said Rong.

Everyone is allowed to buy only one ticket each for the Opening and
Closing Ceremonies, two for high-demand sports sessions and three to five
for other events.

Excluding those reserved for the Olympic Family, sponsors, rights-holding
broadcasters and security guards, some 63,000 tickets are available for
the Opening Ceremony that will take place in the 91,000-seat National
Stadium (Bird's Nest).

To make the Olympics affordable to average Chinese residents, about 58
percent of the tickets are priced at 100 yuan (US$12) or less, and 14
percent of all tickets will be reserved for Chinese students for 10 yuan
(US$1.30) or less.

Ticket prices for the 28 sports sessions range from 30 yuan (US$3.50) to
1,000 yuan (US$127).

The most expensive tickets are for the Opening Ceremony on the evening of
August 8, 2008, which cost 5,000 yuan (US$646). The cheapest tickets for
that event are 200 yuan (US$26).










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