In message , at 11:03:12 on Tue, 24 Apr
2012, The Real Doctor remarked:
As a matter of idle curiosity, how does Olympic ticketing work for
really short events. If, for example, one has a ticket for the men's
100m final, is one ushered in to one's seat just before the gun and
then shown out again ten seconds later? Or do tickets cover particular
periods of occupancy including certain events?

They cover a "morning", "afternoon" or "evening" of a sport, where
"Athletics" is a sport, not "100yds sprint".

Some of the sessions aren't very long though - several of the
cycling/velodrome ones are only 90 minutes for example.

No doubt somewhere is a website that says what the "shortest event" is.

For someone camped out near the start of the Marathon or road cycling,
it's not going to be visible for very long, but on the other hand maybe
they don't need a ticket. I wonder how they are doing crowd control for
street events?
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Roland Perry