Olympic fans queue up for tickets
The last batch of Beijing Olympic Games tickets will go on sale two weeks before the start of the games on August 8.
The sale of some 250,000 tickets have caused quite a stir among Beijing residents desperate to get their hands on them.
Some have been queuing for 45 hours to get one and others have been camping out in the heat.
The remaining tickets are left over from three previous rounds of domestic sales decided by a lottery system.
The tickets are priced from $15 to $117 for football, baseball, gymnastics, diving, and track and field events.
In addition to the tickets on sales for Olympic events in Beijing, another 570,000 tickets will go on sale for football matches in co-host cities: Tianjin, Shanghai, Shenyang and Qinhuangdao.
In total, about 6.8 million Olympic tickets have been made available for domestic and foreign sales.
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