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Tickets for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver will go on sale on October 11, 2008. Kewl~ I wish I can get a ticket to opening ceremony.

The Vancouver Game will be held between February 12 and February 28, 2010, and followed by the Paralympic Games. Ticket prices for the opening and closing ceremonies will range between C$175 and C$1,100, making them less costly than the 2006 ceremonies in Turin and the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City, organizers said. Ticket distribution will not happen until late 2009 to reduce potential counterfeiting.

So I guess you pre-order the ticket in October 2008 and then get the ticket in late 2009.

Vancouver 2010 Ticket Price

Here is the comparison of ticket prices between Vancouver and Salt Lake. Remember in year 2002, $1USD = $1.5CAD. Also, taking inflation into account, the price for year 2010 is really cheap.

VANCOUVER - Vancouver’s Olympic organizers unveiled a package of ticket prices they say will allow ordinary Canadians admission to every event at the 2010 Winter Games.

And admission prices are on average less expensive than those charged at the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Games.

“It would be easy to think this is just a ticket to just another sports event. It is much more than that. It is the entire Olympic experience, an experience that will likely not come our way again for many, many years,” said John Furlong, chief executive of the Vancouver Organizing Committee.

According to Vanoc, fully half of the 1.6 million tickets will sell for less than $100. It is also providing 50,000 tickets free to people who can’t afford them.

And at least 100,000 tickets in women’s hockey preliminaries, cross-country skiing and biathlon will be sold for $25, a price that beats the lowest prices charged at the 2006 Turin Winter Games.

But even those paying the top prices for the best seats will pay less than what organizers say they could have charged. The best seat at the gold-medal men’s hockey final will run $775, and even an entry-level ticket to the event will cost $350. A top ticket at figure skating’s gala exhibition– traditionally the most popular Olympic sport — will cost $525.

The best ticket to the opening ceremony at BC Place will be $1,100, and a spot in the upper sections will cost $175.

Those prices generally mirror what Vancouver’s bidders thought five years ago they would have to charge to make budget. While other parts of the bid book have become outdated, including both the venue construction and operating budgets, keeping ticket prices at 2002 levels was considered a coup, said Dave Cobb, Vanoc’s executive vice-president of marketing.

“We know that we could have asked significantly more, and the demand would be there,” Mr. Cobb said. “But that isn’t what this is about. It was about trying to give as many people as possible the opportunity for an Olympic experience.”

Tickets will go on sale exactly one year from now, after the Beijing 2008 Summer Games.

Source: canada.com

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