That's exacty why people are so annoyed about it though. The huge importance given to corporate sponsorship is sickening anyway but to see the seats granted to those sponsors empty, when so many people applied for tickets and didn't get them.

If the sponsors aren't going to use the seats, can't they donate them, or give them back to the organisation to be sold to the public?

Are you not happy with one negative Olympics thread?

The guy involved in that particular incident learnt english just a few years ago and has already come out and said he misunderstood the questioning.

Quite agree, after all the UK has done to make sure everything is right its a crying shame.
I understand that many of those allocated tickets including Olympic officials have seats covering events that take place simultaneously and therefore could not use them all themselves and obviously did not intend using them themselves anyway.
The crackdown on spivs by London cops and others to prevent black market activities has caught them in an embarrassing situation to which they may not wish to openly admit, so sadly some of them will remain stashed out of sight unused.

I have been quite impressed with some of the tasteful and appropriate locations for events away from the main area.
They showcased the UK really well during TV filming.

Obviously not.

I saw the initial interview and nothing of the sort was said, so not sure about subsequent interviews. Seems it was quite innocent, but who knows? They were talking to to Cavendish about him not riding and he said something like he wasn't qualified somehow, but a French guy was similarly unqualified but he was there racing.

Sorry, I don't understand, are you agreeing or disagreeing?

The issue was that Philip Hindes apparently admitted to falling on purpose and said it was planned, I saw the clip on TV this morning and it seems to me that he just didn't understand what he was being asked, he simply started talking.

Lost in translation eh?

'''We were saying if we have a bad start, we need to crash to get a restart. I just crashed, I did it on purpose to get a restart, just to have the fastest ride. I did it. So it was all planned, really.'

Did you actually hear how he said it? He didn't just run it off as one sentence, it was broken up and he kept stopping, thinking then speaking. Thats my point, if they were worried that it was cheating they would have made Hoy speak, not a 19 year old at his first Olympics who only learnt to speak English when he moved to Manchester nearly 2 years ago. Doesn't sound like a masterminded conspiracy to me.

Anyway, its been investigated and they have decided there is nothing in it. That won't make you happy, no doubt the IOC and the cycling governing bodies have colluded to make sure the team that not only beat anyone one else but also the world record wins! The shame of it!

The girls team pursuit have just smashed the record.... in a heat lap!

I'm saying in the interview I saw nothing was said, but I don't know about the subsequent interviews. It seems weird to me that even if it was intentional that he would admit it. Why would he do that? The important thing is the officials didn't have a problem with it and the French coach said,
"There was no cheating. The British team was much stronger than the French team and I congratulate them on their success.
As I write that's another world record gone in the team pursuit!

It was the initial interview with all three and I agree, it makes no sense, like I said to the doomsayer, to put a non English speaking 19 year old to answer the questions while one of the elder statesmen of the sports sat and let him implicate the team.... I will try and find the clip.

One here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_BUZ9EHKHo

No, there was one at the Velodrome with the three of them stood up and he was fumbling over his words.

Its a Daily Heil article so make of it what you will but half way down is a screen shot of the interview by the lady (name escapes me) at the Velodrome. Hoys face is priceless!

You won't find the clip on the bbc website as it has been deleted....?