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Years ago

Beijing - No Crowds or Rent-a-Crowd

In all fairness this comes up at every olympics. I believe Sydney 200 had around 80% attendance which was quite a dramatic increase from past olympics. Athens was around 50% and China is sitting down at 30%.

At the end of the day the events are sold out and there isnt much that can be done about it to force people/corporates with tickets to actually attend.

As for the road race it was the same conditions for all riders, sure it was tougher but still the same for all.

People need to stop complaining, plan further ahead and be gratefull for what parts of events they do get to see.
Some of the family members sound like the expect to get priority to everything and be able to move along and see the whole race.

I remember seeing the road race at the commenwealth games in melbourne and it wound through the city, very spectator/pedestrain friendly course. This course in china is not. Pick a spot settle in and watch them go past.

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DDFan

Years ago

Why would the Chinese want to watch people riding bicycles? They've moved on & embraced the automobile.

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