Olympic ticket sales lagging

Ticket sales for the baseball tournament at this summer's Athens Olympics are slow, according to a statement made at a press conference yesterday by Giorgos Bolos, the Games' General Manager of Marketing and Ticketing.

Through the first two phases of ticket sales, only 19 percent of available tickets to the baseball events have been sold, he said: " In Baseball we have 32 periods, and it’s difficult to sell all tickets, but I think that we have a national team playing and we will have good results. We have 19%."

The organisers expect ticket sales to the team events, including baseball, to increase once the tournament draws are announced.

The Olympic baseball tournament will take place between 15 August and 25 August on the two fields at the Hellinikon Olympic Complex.