Banks Of Empty Seats At Sold-Out Olympics Prompts Investigation

Despite Olympics tickets being sold out, NBC cameras revealed tons of empty seats at the swimming, dressage, volleyball and tennis events and that has left many potential ticket holders seeing red…

At one point, a NBC Commentator, Bob Costas said that the unfilled seats were simply members of the public who were unable attend because of long queues and transport problems, a cruel fact that essentially left many ticket holders unable to get to their seats in times to watch the events. Others believe a more sinister corporate controversy is responsible.

Many pissed-off, empty-handed folks took to Twitter to express their outrage over the empty seats, one angry commenter put it this way, “Can anyone explain why there are lots of empty seats? Tried repeatedly to get tickets without success.”

Today an investigation has been launched by Olympics organizers, “Locog,” after huge banks of empty seats were painfully evident in many sporting venues on the prestigious opening day of the Games.

A spokesperson for Locog said: “We are aware that some venues have empty seats this morning. We believe the empty seats are in accredited seating areas, and we are in the process of finding out who should have been in the seats and why they weren’t there.”

Word on the street is an unknown number of seats were issued to corporate sponsors — Olympic officials and VIP guests who either didn’t bother to show up — or — got stuck in traffic — ending up too late for entry in the events.