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Vancouver Olympic ticket designs unveiled, as extra seats now available
‘We're expecting a real crush’ come Saturday
By Jeff Lee, Canwest News Service
June 4, 2009 5:24 PM
VANCOUVER -- Only two days before a second major sale of Olympic tickets, organizers for the 2010 Winter Games said Thursday they’ve found another 50,000 seats.
On the same day it gave the public a sneak peek at what Olympics tickets will look like, the Vancouver Organizing Committee said
it will put up more than 200,000 tickets for sale on Saturday to Canadian residents.
“We’re expecting a real crush,” said Caley Denton, Vanoc’s vice-president of ticketing. “Our staff spent the last week checking every seat they could.”
The announcement of more tickets nearly overshadowed the unveiling of the prototype ticket images.
Vanoc showed reporters four images of tickets, including three for sporting events and one for the opening ceremony.
For the sporting events, the tickets contain Vanoc’s signature shaded green and blue colours as a backdrop to stylized images of athletes.
The opening ceremony ticket is blue with the image of a torchbearer running towards BC Place Stadium. Vanoc said the female runner in the image is a caricature of Vancouver’s Patricia Moreno, 18, who was announced earlier this year as one of the first two torchbearers.
The images all have a distinctly Canadian feature of a flock of Canada geese flying in the background.
As with all high-demand tickets nowadays, the 2010 Olympic tickets will have a large number of security features to prevent counterfeiting. The prototypes were stripped of security features and Denton was reluctant to talk about them.
But he acknowledged each ticket will contain holographic images, various types of inks and bar codes. He said Vanoc looked at using radio frequency identification tags — so-called RFID chips — but concluded they weren’t effective.
More than one million tickets will be produced by Weldon, Williams & Lick, an Arkansas-based specialty printer that also produced tickets for the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics.
While Denton refused to talk about the anti-counterfeiting security features, Vanoc published some details when it sought bidders for its ticket-printing contract last year.
In bidding documents it said each ticket had to have a Vanoc-logo hologram on the front, a custom watermark on the back, micro-line printing (printing too small to be easily copied by desktop printers and scanners) and special ultraviolet light-sensitive fibres.
Ticket buyers will receive them in late 2009, when they are delivered by Purolator Courier.
Vanoc also showed off a new interactive “2010 Winter Games Dome” — a 5,000-square-foot tent — developed by another sponsor, the B.C. Lottery Corp., to build Olympic interest in outlying communities.
The dome, incorporating simulated sports such as hockey, biathlon shooting and a computer-generated trip down a bobsled track, will be toured around the province this summer and will be seen at most regional fairs or festivals.
As part of the tour, BCLC is also giving away thousands of tickets to Olympic events, and will award one set of tickets to gold-medal speed-skating in each of the 13 cities or communities it visits.
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