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Over 200,000 tickets to be given away in bid to fill Olympic venues in Rio
Rio 2016 organisers will launch a new project to give away more than 200,000 tickets to schoolchildren to help to fill the gaps in stands, the Guardian can reveal. Officials also told those coming to the Games to “fasten their seatbelts” for a bumpy ride following a cost cutting programme that has reduced the number of volunteers and reduced bills in a host of non-essential areas. Organisers said that because they had hit their 1bn Reais revenue target, they were in a position where they could give tickets away – despite having earlier promised not to do so.
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Get the free tickets an then sell them online! Ah no... that wouldn't work, sorry... no-one wants to go to Rio and get robbed.
Actually getting robbed wouldn't be too bad. The problem is you can get sick, kidnapped, murdered, raped, all sorts of fun things that are commonplace in South American big cities, and tend to happen much more to clueless foreigners.
So true...I find the whole thing a waste of time and resources so the one percent can further suck money out of every one else s pockets. They could not pay me to go. I'd be so paranoid,I'd never leave my hotel room.