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I wonder why there are so many seats at supposedly sold out events?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/oly...stigation.html

Despite tickets for the events being sold out, television images revealed scores of empty seats at the swimming, dressage, volleyball and tennis.

I wonder what parts of the UK will be used to bus in bodies to fill those empty seats. One thing I do know it wont be G4S staff used to make up the numbers.

Despite most events having long since sold out, there were rows of empty seats visible at the swimming heats, the gymnastics, the volleyball and the dressage in Greenwich Park.
The London 2012 organising committee said it appeared that most of the empty seats were not sold to members of the public but were in "accredited" areas meant for members of the "Olympic family".
They include international federations, national governing bodies, athletes, International Olympic Committee officials and non-tabled media positions.
At the morning swimming heats featuring Michael Phelps and his US rival Ryan Lochte, there were an estimated 500 empty seats in one block alone.
And at the morning session of the gymnastics, at which Louis Smith and the rest of the British team appeared, there were more than 1,000 empty seats despite prospective ticket buyers being told it was sold out.
At the volleyball at Earl's Court, around a quarter of the seats at the 15,000 capacity venue were empty.
Andy Reed, a former MP and now director of Sports Thinktank, said there were "so many [empty] seats at the volleyball - really disappointed for so many who wanted to be there".
At the dressage in Greenwich Park, the arena was usually no more than two thirds full - but that could also put down to the fact that many people were dipping in and out of the action.
At the football, which is a different case in that there are far more unsold seats, there were vast swathes of unsold tickets for the women's matches at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium and Glasgow's Hampden Park.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012...ew-empty-seats