On Aug 14, 7:34*pm, "tim....." wrote:
"allantracy" *wrote in message

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The main reason for the empty seats is that a large percentage are given
away free to sponsors and national (as in "other nations") Olympic and
sports organisations.

The various sporting associations are allocated seats so their
officials (mostly volunteers) and competitors can get to see some of
the Olympics as well.

Obviously, at the start of the games, many of those are still busy
with their own events but, as the games progress and many of the early
events are concluded, they can find time to take in the rest of the
games and the problem of empty seats is then lessened.

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Yeah,

what part of the above stops them saying to LOCOG,

"We can't use these seats, you can sell them to normal punters"?

Because to be allowed into the area where those seats are located
requires additional security screening. Provisions had not been made
to screen ordinary members of the public to that standard on an ad-hoc
basis.

Robin