Rio Olympics: Tickets for Usain Bolt's 100m finals unsold

Tickets to see Usain Bolt's likely bid for glory in the Olympic 100-meters final are among more than one million which remain unsold for the Rio de Janeiro Games, a spokesman said

Rio de Janeiro: Tickets to see Usain Bolt's likely bid for glory in the Olympic 100-meters final are among more than one million which remain unsold for the Rio de Janeiro Games, a spokesman said.

Sprinter Usain Bolt

With the opening ceremony today, tickets are still up for grabs for both the 100m and 200m finals, where Jamaican superstar Bolt will try to make history by winning both titles, along with the 4x100m relay, for the third straight Olympics.

That is a stark contrast with the London Games in 2012, when tickets for the most popular events were sold out several months in advance.

"We have sold 4.9 million tickets, about 80 percent" of the total, a spokesman for the Rio 2016 organising committee told AFP. The expensive seats have been hardest to sell for South America's first Olympics.

The cheap tickets to see Bolt are all sold out, but last-minute fans can still get in for 380 reals to 1,200 reals ($115 to $370).

Tickets are also available for the opening ceremony in Rio's Maracana Stadium — though those will set you back $925 to $1,420.

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