OC: Tickets are being sold legally
The Organising Committee maintains that its tickets are being sold legally and through proper channels. There were reports that the tickets were being given away to scrap dealers even as people complained about lack of tickets at the counters.
While talking to this news-paper a senior Organising Committee official has pointed that the Games tickets are available at legal channels.
“We get the transaction details of the outlets selling Games tickets and the online sales on a daily basis,” said the official who also pointed out that the reports of tickets found with scrap dealers is disturbing, but the issue is yet to be investigated. “It is too early to comment,” said the Organising Committee official.
However, on Friday following reports that tickets of several Commonwealth Games events were sold to scrap dealers as waste paper, the Organising Committee officials stated that those were “unsold tickets of previous events”. Media reports on Friday pointed out irregularities in CWG ticket sales.
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Journalists yet to receive full info on Games
AGE CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI
Oct. 8: On September 22, 11 days before the 19th Commonwealth Games were to begin. Accredited journalists received a message from mediazone GMBH, who had landed the job of keeping and purveying the timing and result service of the event.
It ran thus: “...the Timing and Result Service of the Organising Committee Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi intends to offer the start lists and results being delivered to the media representatives via email ... We also hope to simplify your work with this offer ... we will commence to deliver the lists with the start of the first competitions.”
It is now the fifth day of competition and as yet, there has not been a single delivery of either fields, results or timings as promised. On Wednesday, the director of the press operations of the company — when asked when the service would be up in an email — replied: “I can guarantee that our colleagues from technology are working on certain problems around the clock. We are very unhappy about these problems you can trust.”
Data, results etc are available on a centre-by-centre basis but not an one nodal point. The outcome is extended delays and shrugged shoulders when questions are asked. With a total jam in the system and no answers available, international news agencies on Thursday filed an official complaint about the late arrival of results.
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