{"id":567,"date":"2012-07-12T13:10:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T13:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/?p=567"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:24:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:24:02","slug":"olympic-tickets-for-young-people-given-away-to-universities-after-students-have-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/olympic-tickets-for-young-people-given-away-to-universities-after-students-have-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic tickets &#8216;for young people&#8217; given away to universities &#8211; after students have gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>50 tickets to Olympic events <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podium.ac.uk\/news\/view\/870\/london-2012-ticketshare-complimentary-tickets-for-universities-apply-now\">will be given<\/a> to every higher education institution in the country as part of an &#8220;extension&#8221; of the Ticketshare programme to get young people to the Games &#8211; even though most students will have gone home for the summer.<\/p>\n<p>The allocation is managed by the Further and Higher Education Unit for the 2012 Games, <strong>Podium<\/strong>,\u00a0which has a commitment &#8220;to ensure that as many young people as possible get to attend the Games&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And it seems that the students aren&#8217;t the only ones on a break &#8211; phonecalls to three members of Podium&#8217;s media team this week went unanswered when we tried to contact them about the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes in the wake of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-18569098\">reports<\/a> that two-thirds of Olympic football tickets at Hampden Park remain unsold\u00a0and that thousands of unsold tickets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/olympics\/9387705\/London-2012-Olympics-Thousands-of-unsold-tickets-offered-to-Games-sponsors.html\">have been offered<\/a> to sponsors after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-18345874\">sales as a whole slowed down<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>50,000 other tickets will also be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/scottish-news\/2012\/07\/10\/free-olympic-tickets-to-be-made-available-to-young-scots-86908-23906804\/\">given away<\/a> to sport clubs, charities and youth projects in Scotland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>50 tickets to Olympic events will be given to every higher education institution in the country as part of an &#8220;extension&#8221; of the Ticketshare programme to get young people to the Games &#8211; even though most students will have gone &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/olympic-tickets-for-young-people-given-away-to-universities-after-students-have-gone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[295,293,296,294],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}