World Cup Ticket Warning

[RobinC]

For any of you who were planning to go to the World Cup Shooting event at the Woolwich Olympic Range in April please be warned that contrary to what it says on the event website it is effectively NON SPECTATOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The site is under high security now and you will be turned away!

World Cups are normally free and open to who ever wishes to go but LOCOG have decided this will be ticket only and there are only 50 a day and don't bother to ask, they are going to dignitaries, etc, and have already been allocated.
This has been kept well quiet and many of us have been working for some time to get tickets, the NSRA, British Shooting, are playing pass the hot potatoe and not acting, politicians don't care, we only found out the truth from foreign teams who had been warned that family and friends travelling with the team should get the team to apply for tickets! Yesterday I got a reply from the sports minister which stated, it was restricted and it was nothing to do with him, it was LOCOG!

LOCOG just refer to it as a "test event" and say it is only to test the site not security or spectator management so they are not budgeting or providing that other than for competitors and officials!! It a WORLD CUP for FS!
So we have an Olympic range which will be pulled down after the Olympics, we are'nt allowed to hold our national Championships on it even though its finished and un used when they are scheduled, and now we can't even go and watch the best in the World on our range in the only World Cup this country will be permitted to hold (probably for ever).
Makes you Proud to be British!
Robin

[The Doctor]

I shall reserve my comments for fear that the swear filter will melt.

Utterly ridiculous - I wonder if they have ever tried to get a variety of people intoxicated in a place where they make beer??

Numptees

Lee

[Bing!]

Good grief!
I don't know wether to laugh or cry.


Bing!

[anightrains]

this give us a very fair idea of how important air-gunners,and shooters in general are to the British government,
we now live in a full on nanny state, the sad thing is it can only get worse
brian
PS its the tax payers money they have spent building it in the first place.

[RobinC]

I think its worse than a nanny state, none of us could see the sense or logic of moving the venue which was to be permanant at Bisley as quoted in the Olympic bid to Woolwich, a military site, temporary facilities, and pulled down afterwards.
Am I being paranoid in now seeing it was a plan from day one, on a military site they can use all sorts of special powers to keep people out! So we have a range that will be pulled down, tickets for the Olympic shooting were nearly non existant, no use for domestic championships even though its unused, no access for the World Cup, those taking pictures get police attention, that's not a nanny state, thats getting close to a third world dicatator police state! No, of course not I'm just getting paranoid after a year of letter writing to MP's and Ministers and having just recieved the first reply this week!
Robin

[AD_K]

Could you be wrong? My misses and I have tickets and we arent Royalty etc....

Adam