Empty seats!

Still people coming in, though. I suspect a lot of people struggled a bit to get there this morning or simply decided not to go first thing today. It's noticeably filling up now.

Also, there will be comp and assigned seats that people will not always be in for the whole show.
 
Someone needs to shut the annoying children up in the background. I'll be seriously unimpressed if there is a crying baby when I'm there.
 
Haven't seen the dressage yet, only just got link working (poor person without Sky) but at the start of the cyling road race huge crowds but one grandstand empty - persumably VIPS who will arrive just for the last bit not the full 5 hours.
 
Still looks bad, whatever the reason, ESP since so little public availability. I suspect the empties mainly belong to corporate sponsors & block-booked tour operators who could not then shift them
 
There are loads of people walking the course and watching on the various big screens and the queues for food/water are about an hour long...
 
The seats around me are empty but they haven't been all the time, there really are a lot of people who aren't in the arena, you can't move in the food area!
 
The blocks that I could see empty opposite me this morning have people in now, I am literally surrounded by empty seats now but that hasnt been the case all day. There are a lot of people leaving now though...
 
It looks like this is going to be an issue. Blocks of empty seats at aquatic & athletic venues too, & the pattern is that general public seats & cheap seats are filled & pricey seats empty. It looks really bad & makes it look like Olympics is for the rich & connected, who cannot then be bothered to show up!
 
yes they were saying earlier that the gymnastics was almost impossible to get tickets for but there were tonnes of empty seats there!
 
1 block was for participants etc but apart from that all the seats had people in at some point from what I saw. There was always LOADS of people outside walking the course etc.
 
What a shame, I knew lots of people who tried to get them with no luck. People who would really have benefited from going. It is a sad sign of the times all this corporate stuff; people at the races who have no interest in it & just there for a jolly, but then they do not prevent enthusiasts going like here.
 
Loads of empty seats at the ladies tennis, can't believe nobody wanted to watch.
Not impressed by the officials outfits, smart chinos would have been nice, rather than some sort of shell suit bottom, ball-boys are a bit standout in red against the Wimbledon purple backdrop.
 
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There REALLY wasn't loads of empty seats.... Must just have been how it looked on the tele. the riders/team block was right in the middle.
 
From the BBC: Locog orders urgent investigation. Olympic family & sponsors not using their seats...

It's been a prob in various venues. It did look quite bad at Greenwhich from TV pics but can understand that for the dressage phase people will take quite a lot of time away to explore elsewhere / need to wait forever for food!
 
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From the BBC: Locog orders urgent investigation. Olympic family & sponsors not using their seats...
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Good! If that is the case, then surely all they have to do is check their records? They scanned the bar code of every ticket. Surely that would tell them how many seats were unused?
 
Thing is as well, think how many tickets are given to media and journalists? If just one person gets given 5 different events to cover which may or may not clash, there's no way they'd get 100% capacity.

I thought Greenwich looked packed in parts, less so in others. But as Galaxy says, if people were off walking the course, getting food etc, it will look emptier than normal. Plus dressage is such a personal thing and people may have picked and chosen who they were going to watch. I doubt tuesday will look as empty (I'll take pics :D )
 
I am fortunate enough to have sky HD+ and though I don't pretend to understand it I can work it,which means I can record everything and then watch it at my leisure going backwards/forwards etc on a whim. Believe me there were loads of empty seats-some of the same seats empty for the whole day .
 
The people behind me (6 of them) were only sat there for 4 horses. A lot of people were pretty well settled in front of big screens too and you couldn't get in without a ticket.
 
Have to say the venue is stunning, staff were lovely. Yes there were a few too many empty seats :(

The food I didn't bother with as way OTT price wise and didn't look worth the wait.

The major issue was the water. Make you throw yours away saying no problem to fill the bottles again when your in there but the wait was horrendous and nowhere near enough 'fountains' eg one dribbly tap. Makes you wonder if this was so you had to buy a bottle . . .:rolleyes:

Apart from the water issue :cool: the day was stunning. Loved Buzz and as for Mary, fab test. That woman is a legend.
 
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