Asian Games 2010 medal tally, China rules

Asian Games 2010: Around 400,000 tickets were sold to public at the Asian Games to solve the difficulty of empty stadiums. The press conference was organized Monday on Guangzhou Asian Games. Olympic Council of Asia president Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah attended the conference and decided to print 400,000 tickets for sale.During two days of competition the stadiums remained empty and there were no tickets for pubic sale.

The same problem was skilled by New Delhi organizers of last month's
Common wealth Games when thousands of tickets were sold by organizers only few people turned up to watch the games. Director of the Guangzhou Asian Games ticketing center Yuan Yue said "There were a few competitions that were 'cold inside, hot outside',"."We are doing our very best to make as many tickets as likely available to the public."

The tickets were officially sold out at the website for the games and people interested in buying the tickets couldn’t find another way to get it. The online website showed that tickets were already sold out. There were 2.3 million tickets available for the games. Around 1million tickets were allotted for the residents of Guangzhou city, Chinese youth Olympic development programs, organizations in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Official says that ticket booths will be placed in many public places for the convenience of the people and there will be booths at the venues. More people will likely turn up as the competition moves to the finals. The 16th Asian Games are being held in Guangzhou from Nov 12 to 27.