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Greeks urged to buy up Olympic tickets
via Swiss Info (h/t Lucianne) - EFLBy Daniel Howden - Wednesday 14.07.2004, CET 07:48 Athens Olympic organisers have called on Greeks to snap up unsold tickets to avoid greeting the world with empty stadiums when the worldâs biggest sporting event comes home in a monthâs time. With foreigners staying away and millions of seats unsold, Athens chief Games organiser Gianna Angelopoulos appealed to locals to pick up the slack and put on a good show in front of the worldâs cameras. ...more... Bad juju in EuroLand. Big bad Merkans staying home. But thatâs okay, right? They say they donât want us - so fine, weâll stay away. No bitchinâ allowed. Posted by: .com 2004-07-14 |
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