London 2012

[DWx]

Did anyone apply for tickets? Anyone apply for any of the TKD, Judo, Boxing or wrestling?

I only applied for the TKD, that session with the men's +80kg and women's +65kg semi-finals and finals. Hopefully will get tickets..

[Jay]

Aw Sweet that sounds amazing. I applied for the judo in my weight catergory Mens 66Kg and also the Womens 60Kg I think it was. Im not so sure about the womens weight categories. I also applied for the fencing which I like alot. JKD isn't called fencing without the sword for nothing.

I really wanted to see alot of different ones, the wrestling, boxing ,TKD, I love them all but alas tickets were pretty expensive.

Im pretty sure we both will get tickets for events such as these. They tend not to be as popular as some. I also heard they will resell tickets later on if they don't fill them all. Which is highly likely looking at the previous olympics seats in lots of events were empty. May be able to pick up some other events cheap later on.

[DWx]

Yeah I really wanted to watch the boxing and some judo. But couldn't afford it. As it is the tickets I got for me and the family are £500, got to add travel, hotel, food on top of that and its getting a little expensive

I also really wanted to watch the gymnastics and diving but would have to take out another student loan for that!

Hopefully we'll get tickets. Don't know though because I was reading a report on BBC where a lot of people had commented that they'd applied for the less popular events because they were cheaper and they just wanted to see something. Been checking my bank account daily though

[Jay]

No money been taken out yet!

Is it just me or did you get annoyed with the payment system them being free to take money from your account at any time. As a student and im sure you will agree, its hard to guarantee that theres going to be money there to take. So im keeping an eye on things at the moment to keep expenses down for a whole month.

Im very lucky in the fact that im actually from london and know it well. Travelling to most events will be around 20-40mins on underground. So im not having to pay for food and board as it were.

Im pretty optimistic that we will both get tickets.

[DWx]

Yeah very annoying in that I can't really plan for it properly. Resell website doesn't open until next year either so its not like you can resell any excess tickets straight away. Student overdraft is a wonderful thing though. Gives me a while to pay it back into the account.

Lucky you being in London. I'm at uni in York which'll be ridiculous to get down to London from. The parent's house is in Leicester which is a bit closer but still nowhere near. But might not have to have a hotel because I only applied for the afternoon/evening sessions so I could maybe travel down in the morning.

[DWx]

I got TKD tickets!!!!!!

[DWx]

I got TKD tickets!!!!!!

Worked out I got tickets to the heavyweight finals in class C seats! This has made my week

[sensei8]

Danielle,

That way to cool that you've got the tickets you wanted, and that you're going. I'm a twinged bit jealous!

You're going to have so much fun there. Not only to see the Olympics, but to sight see all over London. Wait...I'm a twinged bit jealous...again.

Just kidding...Have a lot of fun there.

[Patrick]

Congrats!

Patrick

[Jay]

From my calculations it looks like I won't get tickets for the Judo. But its okay because I can watch it on the TV, im not that disappointed really plus I can try and reapply. I did get tickets for other events but im not sure which ones as they add up to the same amount so I will find out later on. Im still excited to go, even if im not going to martial art events.