No tickets at half-empty venues plague S'pore Youth Olympic Games

Earth Times, 19 Aug 2010
Five days into the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in Singapore organizers are facing growing complaints from would-be spectators, saying they have been unable to buy tickets although competition venues were poorly filled. In letters run by Thursday's Straits Times newspaper, sports fans claimed they had been turned away by staff at stadiums because tickets "were sold out," only to find that many seats remained empty. The alarmed Singapore government quickly moved to address the issue. Full story