Despite being heralded as an opportunity for British sporting fans to buy tickets, it transpires that sporting fans from the EU have also been snapping up tickets (even though their countries had already been allocated tickets).
For why?
EU free trade rules prohibit EU citizens from being excluded.
Figures from the first round ballot of tickets show that EU citizens managed to obtain 150,000 tickets. Figures are not yet available for the second round.
It's a funny old world where British fans/taxpayers (who are subsidising this event) are treated so shabbily by Locog.
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