Lucky ones win chance to buy Olympic tickets today
December 14, 2009 by Kirk Darbyshire · 1 Comment
(Left to right) Maggie Fung, executive director of IET, Desiree Yu, public information assistant of marketing and communication, Linda Gomes, executive assistant of finance and administration, oversee Monday's Olympic ticket draw on Surrey campus. (Kirk Darbyshire photo)
If you are a student or employee of Kwantlen, and Monday is your lucky day, you may have gotten a chance to buy tickets to the 2010 Olympic Games.
A total of 1,118 students and 264 employees entered their names in the draw for tickets to the 57 events available to Kwantlen for the upcoming winter games, according to Peter Chevrier, director of marketing and communications for Kwantlen.
People who won the right to purchase tickets were being notified by e-mail late in the day Monday and will have seven days to decide whether to purchase the offered tickets or not.
If the first person passes on the tickets, then they will be offered to a second person, selected by the random number generating computer software, and so on until all tickets are purchased.
Hockey was the most requested event in the draw, with 844 people requesting tickets to the men’s gold medal game. The least requested event was figure skating with only 333 people putting their names forward for tickets the men’s short program.
The draw, which took place on Kwantlen’s Surrey campus, was witness by two people who weren’t participating in the ticket lottery, to ensure accuracy and fairness.
