Get in on our Games
THESE are the best of the rest – the hottest tickets still available to the Commonwealth Games.
Four days after the final release of tickets to next year’s event, seats at some of the Games’ biggest moments remain up for grabs including the 100m sprint finals, hockey’s sudden-death semis and the historic closing ceremony (albeit with a minimum price tag of $250).
The chance to witness gold medal-winning moments also remains alive via tickets to various finals including boxing, squash and badminton.
“The 100m final is one of the great events of the Games (and) people often think those tickets must be gone,” GOLDOC chairman Peter Beattie said.
“Well, they’re not.”
With more than 71,000 seats snapped up within 24 hours of the final release, almost one million tickets have now been sold to the Commonwealth Games.
And while marquee events such as the opening ceremony, basketball and swimming were quick to sell out, finals in badminton, table tennis, weightlifting and shooting are also guaranteed of being contested in front of full houses.
About 200,000 tickets to Games events will now remain on sale until sold out.
“This is probably the only time we’ll see a Games on the Gold Coast … so I do encourage people to think outside the box,” Mr Beattie said. “Don’t just think of the tickets that have been sold.
“Think of going to events where there will be global teams performing or … just to be part of the Games experience.”