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14 September 2012 / Jennifer James
Issue: 7529 / Categories: Blogs
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Jennifer James mourns the end of a sporting season

The Insider has thoroughly enjoyed spectating at the Olympic and Paralympic Games this summer. Having been dissuaded by well-meaning loved ones from volunteering as a Games Maker (and having seen the uniform I don’t think it would have flattered my shape, besides which there is of course no guarantee they would have wanted me), and having been too disorganised to enter the ballot for tickets last year, I was without a single ticket by July 26, the eve of the Opening Ceremony.

Persistence pays

Friends and foes alike will tell you I am nothing if not persistent, and I was on the website every half hour or so in search of tickets that were reportedly being released daily, with the end result that the Italian and I were in the Olympic Park on the day after the Opening Ceremony watching the women’s basketball in a splendid edifice nicknamed “The Mattress”, and subsequently riding up the Orbit tower from where we could see the Olympic flame,

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