Menu
Olympics

Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games Break Ticket, Online Visitor Records

The 2014 Sochi Paralympic Winter Games have already broken records for ticket sales and online visitors. As of Sunday, Sochi has sold 287,000 tickets, beating the previous record set at the 2010 Vancouver Paralympics by 57,000 sales. As of Saturday, 45,000 people visited the Olympic Park and more than 2,000 people attended the evening medals ceremony in Rosa Khutor. The Games are also proving an online success, with more people visiting the Int'l Paralympic Committee's website www.paralympic.org in the first 24 hours of the Games than the whole of the Vancouver Paralympics, which spanned 10 days (IPC). R-SPORT reported in October, IPC President Philip Craven "raised concerns about the issue, but it appears they have been in vain." Craven: "We were concerned that there weren’t enough tickets that had been sold by then and things have changed. We have many discussions with different authorities, particularly with the organizing committee and our pleasure is that in a five-month period things have changed" (R-SPORT, 3/7).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

NFL meeting preview; MLB's opening week ad effort and remembering Peter Angelos.

Big Get Jay Wright, March Madness is upon us and ESPN locks up CFP

On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

Shareable URL copied to clipboard!

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Global/Issues/2014/03/10/Olympics/Paralympics-tickets.aspx

Sorry, something went wrong with the copy but here is the link for you.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Global/Issues/2014/03/10/Olympics/Paralympics-tickets.aspx

CLOSE