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Article: Scuffles as Olympic tickets go on sale in Beijing to thousands of eager fans
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- July 25, 2008
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Thousands of eager fans who had waited for up to two days swarmed sales windows in Beijing on Friday for the final batch of tickets for next month's Olympic Games, knocking people to the ground and bending metal barricades in the chaotic crush.
Witnesses said scuffles broke out at one ticket site as officials opened additional sales windows at the last minute, causing some fans to stampede ahead of others in a bid to buy some of the 250,000 tickets that went on sale in different parts of the host city.
"It was so unfair," said Ji Liqiang, who waited for 28 hours with Wang Zhenqiang, a fellow businessman from eastern Shandong province, for a chance to buy tickets to ...