More
than 7 million tickets went on sale Sunday for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games,
organizers said.
Seventy-five percent of the tickets are for domestic sale and the rest are
for sale outside of China, officials of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the
Olympic Games said.
Wang Wei, executive vice president and secretary general of the event's
organizing committee, repeated earlier statements that tickets were going to be
affordable to the general public.
"The ticketing process will be conducted in the most efficient, fair and open
manner possible and will follow internationally accepted practices," Wang was
quoted as saying in a statement.
Organizers said tickets in China will be distributed over three phases. For
events that are oversubscribed, the recipients of the tickets will be picked by
random selection, the committee said.
For tickets outside China, responsibility for distribution will be on the
respective national Olympic committees or their designated agents, organizers
said.
