Would you want to be in a bikini when it's only 55-60 degrees? Scratch that thought........Roadie in a bikini........<shudder>
From what I read on the BBC, the ticket issue is even perplexing to the Brits. It sounds like they are blaming the IOC and their system for allotting tickets. The same empty seats were seen in Beijing, Athens and Sydney. I know a ton of US fans were doing 1 day flights to places like Spain and Portugal to get Olympic tickets. You had to get them in person quite literally in convenience or grocery stores oddly enough. If you went to like Madrid you could get tix for equestrian events and table tennis but if you hopped another plane to Barcelona you could get tix there for events like crew and archery. So they were flying over there, buying the tix then flying back home while playing hookey from work for 2 days. The original thought was to call a friend in the UK to get tix but even the folks in the UK had no way of getting tix for themselves...........maybe that's why so many people turned out for the cycling road races, no tix needed for that.