Half of all WEG 2014 passes sold in 24 hours
Half of the passes offered for sale for the 2014 World Equestrian Games inwards French Republic sold inside a day, organisers say.
Buyers flocked to the official website for the number to catch i of the 15,000 passes available on Monday, causing the event’s novel website to stimulate got problems.
With nine months until the number start, the Normandy 2014 Organising Committee has already recorded 102,000 pages viewed on the ticketing site together with sold 150,000 places for the diverse competitions.
In less than 24 hours, one-half the proposed passes (15,000) had been reserved past times meshwork users, from to a greater extent than or less the world. In total, over 15,000 places were bought inwards this agency inwards a affair of hours, enabling the organisers to top the target of 150,000 tickets sold.
At 1400 GMT on Monday, the official website recorded 2000 simultaneous connections, over double the normal visitors. Ahead of such a success, the organisers are already considering extending their offer, together with thus every bit to endure able to reckon demand. Some 200,000 places volition stay allocated for the tertiary together with concluding stage of the ticketing operation, where the tickets volition endure sold individually at the start of March 2014.
The showtime stage of ticketing, launched on June 6, was reserved for members of national equestrian federations.
WEG 2014 takes house inwards Normandy from August 23 to September 7, amongst 8 official disciplines vying for entitle titles.
More than lx nations together with most M athletes volition compete inwards front end of an expected 500,000 visitors.
At the weekend, FEI President Princess Haya congratulated the Normandy 2014 Organising Committee on the launch of its novel website.
“This imaginative site volition offering fans together with athletes from all over the world an chance to detect all the relevant games information on all of our disciplines inwards i place.
“For those of you lot fortunate plenty to see French Republic side past times side yr you lot volition stimulate got at manus everything needed to brand your sense inwards Normandy a success. I aspect frontward to seeing you lot all inwards the beautiful Normandy setting side past times side year, which I am certain volition endure a landmark equestrian event.”
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