'We're expecting a real crush’ come Saturday

By: JEFF LEE, Vancouver Sun
Published: June 04, 2009

Just two days before a second major sale of Olympic tickets, organizers for the 2010 Winter Games said Thursday they've found another 50,000 seats.

On the same day they gave the public a sneak peek of what the tickets to the Olympics will look like, the Vancouver Organizing Committee said they will put up more than 200,000 tickets for sale on Saturday to Canadian residents.

"We're expecting a real crush," said Caley Denton, Vanoc's vice-president of ticketing. "Our staff spent the last week checking every seat they could."

The announcement of more tickets nearly overshadowed the unveiling of the prototype ticket images.

Vanoc showed off to reporters four images, including three for sporting events and one for the Opening Cerermonies.

For the sporting events, the tickets contain Vanoc's signature shaded green and blue colors as a backdrop to stylized images of athletes.

The Opening Ceremony ticket is blue with the image of a torch bearer running towards BC Place Stadium. Vanoc said the female runner in the image is a caricature of Vancouver's Patricia Moreno, 18, who was announced earlier this year as one of the first two torch bearers.

The images all have a distinctly Canadian feature of a flock of Canada geese flying in the background.

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