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At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, organisers sold 95 per cent of the 1.6 million tickets available and the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing sold almost 96 per cent of 6.8 million tickets. Tickets to the men’s gold-medal hockey game are most in demand, followed by the men’s snowboard finals and women’s figure skating, said Christian Anderson, spokesman for US ticket search engine, Fan Snap. The first event of the 21st Winter Olympics is the preliminary round of the men’s ski jumping in Whistler, British Columbia, followed by the opening ceremony in Vancouver, which starts at 6pm local time, 2am GMT. Related Articles: AEG Partnership with Eventim? With their partnership with Ticketmaster about to expire, Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), owner of Staples Center in Los Angeles and London’s O2 arena, as well as being Ticketmaster's largest client, is said to be exploring a potential relationship with European leader CTS Eventim AG - the... Holiday on Ice Announces Collaboration With Barry Manilow Pop culture icon and legendary showman Barry Manilow and
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Eventim Tickets are now also on MySpace! A deal between CTS Eventim AG, Europe's market leader in the
primary ticketing market and MySpace, the world's largest music platform will
now have MySpace's users able to buy tickets directly from the primary ticketing
company under http://www.myspace.com/ticketshop.
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Nearly five months after news of the resale Web site broke, the Vancouver Olympic Committee (VANOC) finally appears close to launching their own ticket resale site for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
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Organisers
of the Vancouver Winter Olympics, which start today, expect to sell all 1.6
million tickets. If their expectations are met, it will be the first time an
Olympics has sold out. 