Olympic tickets can you sell them

The government and organisers had long seen the event as a chance to display the country's recovery from a devastating earthquake and nuclear crisis. Spectators from overseas were banned months ago. A Lithuanian athlete tested positive in Hiratsuka, west of Tokyo, and a member of the Israeli delegation was found positive on arrival at Tokyo's Haneda airport, domestic media reported, without giving details. They are not the first. A Ugandan athlete and a coach tested positive last month.

A Serbian athlete tested positive this month. The Games, postponed from last year, are scheduled to run from July 23 to Aug. Tara Kirk Sell, an Olympic silver medallist in swimming and professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, welcomed the decision to cancel spectators.

But I think it reduces the risk quite a bit," she told Reuters. Olympic torch begins its day relay across Japan. The torch relay for the Tokyo Olympics has begun, a day journey across Japan that will end in the capital for the July 23 opening ceremony. Ticketing for the Tokyo Olympics became more complicated when the pandemic forced a yearlong delay and then the exclusion of foreign spectators.

But the Olympic marketplace was already, by its nature, complex. Each of more than national Olympic committees can select an authorized ticket reseller, or ATR, for its territory. Each ATR has the right to purchase a block of seats from the host organizing committee and put those tickets on the market back home. The process involves currency exchange rates, credit card fees and other administrative expenses.

CoSport Chief Executive Alan Dizdarevic says his company does not turn a profit on ticket sales, making its money instead on high-end packages that include hotel rooms and hospitality events.

The fees that his customers want back, he said, have already been spent on buying and processing tickets. The New Jersey-based company contends the Japanese should refund fees because they made the decision to ban outsiders. Tokyo officials will refund face value for all tickets sold internationally but have pushed back against reimbursing fees they neither collected nor received. The U. CoSport, which operates in several countries, claims it could not find suitable coverage in the U.

Over the years, his company has faced complaints about fees, availability of choice seats during the lottery process, and inefficiency in delivering tickets. Customers say that, in this instance, shifting terms and conditions have left them confused about amounts and schedules for refunds.

Some people wonder why CoSport has not been as accommodating as other companies during the pandemic. These are aimed at the wealthy, hospitality packages and corporate buyers, for whom price is not always a concern.

The resellers also run the risk of getting stuck with tickets they can't sell. Not only did buyers have to pay the markups, but they were also penalized by the fluctuation in the exchange rate at that time in Brazil. That was not CoSport's fault, but it pushed some prices up by another 50 percent to buyers outside Brazil. Hidenori Suzuki, the senior director of tickets for the Tokyo Olympics, said local organizers try to scrutinize the authorized ticket resellers.

If buyers outside Japan are patient and don't rush to buy they may get some deals. It happened in Brazil. And it happened at the Pyeongchang Olympics.