European Sports News
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 In the worldwide scramble for Olympic tickets, the International Olympic Committee strictly prohibits countries and their agents from reselling tickets on the black market. But a U.S. ticket broker says he bought thousands of tickets from two dealers who claimed to have a pipeline to European Olympic officials.
In an interview with The Seattle Times, Gene Hammett, who owns Action Seating in Suwanee, Ga., said he purchased and resold thousands of tickets for the 2008 Beijing Games from a father and son with Hungarian connections — and recently paid one of them nearly $3 million for tickets to the Vancouver Winter Games, which come to a close Sunday.
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A two-year investigation of online Olympics ticket scams has identified defrauded consumers throughout the world and dubious ticketing practices by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), according to the Moriarty Leyendecker law firm.
Hundreds of consumers – including families and friends of Olympic athletes – have been defrauded by official-looking ticketing web sites or failed to receive tickets from "gray market" resellers during the past two Olympics, said attorney Jim Moriarty who was defrauded by an online site before the Beijing Games in 2008.
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 The BBC is reporting that Manchester police investigating a suspected ticket-touting ring have nabbed dozens of Manchester United tickets at a property in the city. More than 40 tickets for a recent match against Arsenal and dozens of season cards were found, along with £11,000 in cash.
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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.
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 UK Footballer John Terry is facing a barrage of new allegations and questions last night over his fitness to be England captain after a UK Daily Mail investigation found his personal box at Wembley being 'touted out' for €5,000 a match.
His contract to rent the luxurious 12-seater facility is subsidised tens of thousand per year, which is one of his 'perks' as skipper of the national team and its terms expressly forbid hiring it out. For a hefty price, reporters from the Mail were offered exclusive use of it for England's friendly against Egypt next month by an associate of Terry's management agents.
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