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Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games mascots Quatchi, left, and Miga hold mock ups of what the Olympic tickets will look like following a news conference in Vancouver, B.C., on Thursday June 4, 2009. VANOC will release the final 150,000 available tickets for sale to the public June 6.
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More than 100,000 Games tickets on sale today

The Canadian Press
Posted Saturday, November 7, 2009 10:00 AM ET

VANCOUVER - More than 100,000 tickets to the 2010 Winter Games are up for sale online today.

Olympic organizers say seats are available to all events in the Vancouver area, including gold-medal hockey and the opening and closing ceremonies.

Tickets for events in Whistler, B.C. won't be up for grabs because the transportation system can't handle any more people coming from outside the area.

The tickets are for sale on a first-come, first-served basis and while it's the last time organizers will hold a formal sale, that doesn't mean more seats won't eventually come available.

That's in part because organizers are also building their own ticket resale system that will allow people to unload seats they can't use.

Overall, 1.6 million tickets are being sold to the Games and organizers have committed to making sure 70 per cent of those go to the public.

 

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