1 – wait till 10 minutes after the event starts
2 – find a guy on the street yelling “tickets”
3 – throw out a ridiculously low number, at this point they are out money and want to recoup
4 – expect to pay like, 75% less than the face value
Common sense stuff, eh.
I have video of me telling you all this but doubt I’ll edit it.
Meet my co-workers, that’s Mark on the left and Hosea on the right. Both are reporters and both were jealous when on the Skytrain a cop gave me a rare pin that lights up.
I might be the only person here not collecting Olympic pins.
We’re taking heat in the international press for the Games being “a disorganized Olympics”; I disagree.
I’m not saying gloss over everything because it’s Canada, but rather because I don’t see it.
Executing an event of this magnitude reqires a ridiculous amount of details, logistics, and the like. Think about the last dinner party you threw and times that by a billion.
Some things are going to go awry – how could they not – but if you were to judge these Games based on a smile-o-metre, then it’s a success.
Meet some of Canada’s biggest sports journalists today: Steve Buffery, Steve Simmonds and David Langford.
They’re calmer than me about this whole Olympic experience.
For the first time Canada is aggressively going after the podium, and we excel at the new sports – such as ski cross – because we’re early-adopters. Email me or yell hi when you see me on the street!
