My goodness, how can this possibly be true? Stadium seating for 2020 Olympic men's marathon finish is SOLD OUT.

Nope. No theory on why they sold out they're there their marathon. I do have a theory on why rojo is the village idiot. It's its called affluenza.

So people think I'm an idiot for wondering if it's true that a 68,000 seat stadium will be filled at 6 in the morning with people watching the beginning and end of a marathon of which you'll see 600 meters or so? I'm amazed if 68,000 people are going to sit in a stadium to see 1.4% of a race at 6 in the morning.

But that's really cool if true.

Answer to Rojo’s question above.

YES

rojo wrote:

I'm amazed if 68,000 people are going to sit in a stadium to see 1.4% of a race at 6 in the morning.

I'm not, but then I'm actually aware of what a big deal marathon and distance running are in Japan, both historically and currently.

We put in our request for 2 tickets. All T&F days. Tickets in total = > $25,000.00. Hotel one room for two = > $5,000.00. Air and food, I didn't check . . . because we're not going. I had no clue it was this expensive.

I just received word from my friend in Japan that I successfully won the lottery to get tickets for three of the five days that I applied for. Tickets for track and field events are broken down into pricing categories from A-E. The most expensive tickets are the "A" tickets. And the least expensive are in the "E" section. For what it's worth, the three days that I won the lottery, I tried for sections A or B. The two days that I lost, I had put in for section D and E. Bottom line, is that you have a better chance of winning the more expensive tickets $985 and $1186 each, than you do the least expensive seats ($378 and $310). Plan on spending a lot of money if you go to the Tokyo Olympics. The tickets are very expensive.

Corporate sponsorship for the games bought this out, got first rights.

rojo wrote:

So people think I'm an idiot for wondering if it's true that a 68,000 seat stadium will be filled at 6 in the morning with people watching the beginning and end of a marathon of which you'll see 600 meters or so? I'm amazed if 68,000 people are going to sit in a stadium to see 1.4% of a race at 6 in the morning.

But that's really cool if true.

Love a person who's not afraid to double down and show the world their true makeup.

rojo wrote:

Their going to fill an entire stadium with marathon fans sitting there for 2 plus hours waiting for the race to finish?

So people think I'm an idiot for wondering if it's true that a 68,000 seat stadium will be filled at 6 in the morning with people watching the beginning and end of a marathon of which you'll see 600 meters or so? I'm amazed if 68,000 people are going to sit in a stadium to see 1.4% of a race at 6 in the morning.

But that's really cool if true.

Nope. People think that you're your an idiot because you're your a 50 year old native English speaker with a million dollar private school education who was too to two lazy to two too learn how to two too spell the most elementary words or learn the most basic grammar. It's its a damn shame. There they're their rojo, don't get all butthurt because it's its your fault that you're your an idiot.

The sad thing is that rojo just doesn't care about being stupid. He has his little trust fund, and that's that.

rojo wrote:

So people think I'm an idiot for wondering if it's true that a 68,000 seat stadium will be filled at 6 in the morning with people watching the beginning and end of a marathon of which you'll see 600 meters or so? I'm amazed if 68,000 people are going to sit in a stadium to see 1.4% of a race at 6 in the morning.

But that's really cool if true.

Stadiums have large screens. The race coverage can be displayed on such screens. The fans will be watching the coverage on the big screens, drinking expensive breakfast cocktails and partying with their friends. What is so hard to comprehend?

In the loop wrote:

rojo wrote:

So people think I'm an idiot for wondering if it's true that a 68,000 seat stadium will be filled at 6 in the morning with people watching the beginning and end of a marathon of which you'll see 600 meters or so? I'm amazed if 68,000 people are going to sit in a stadium to see 1.4% of a race at 6 in the morning.

But that's really cool if true.

Stadiums have large screens. The race coverage can be displayed on such screens. The fans will be watching the coverage on the big screens, drinking expensive breakfast cocktails and partying with their friends. What is so hard to comprehend?

Everything is hard for Rojo and his peanut sized brain to comprehend.

Ekiden's bring tens of thousands of people to watch. An Olympic marathon is better than the Ekiden. So yea it makes sense.

? Their going to fill an entire stadium with marathon fans sitting there for 2 plus hours waiting for the race to finish? [/quote]

No, THEY’RE going to fill.., not THEIR. How many times do we have to tell you?

Not 68,000 but we watched the women's marathon from the old Olympic Stadium in Athens. The place was packed and it was a great deal of fun. No doubt the Tokyo Olympic Stadium will be the same.

It was sold out for the Women's Marathon in 1984 in the USA, so of course it would be sold out for Men's in 2020. It was also sold out for both the Men's and Women's Marathons in 2004 in Athens -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HU2FGc0mOE&t=499s

The Japanese love their marathoners and Kipchoge will be there (hopefully).

As someone said above, each country or region gets allocated a certain number of tickets for each event, and then a designated private party has a lottery to sell them. In the US that private party is CoSport. So certainly it would be harder to get tickets if you are in Japan, where there's no travel, than if you are in, say, Ecuador. The US falls in the middle, as it is a wealthy country and lots of people might be interested in going to the Olympics, but there are limiting factors, like cost, travel time and language. I've been to the Vancouver and London Olympics before and tickets were pretty hard to get for Americans...I didn't get any "big end" events. I did get one afternoon of T&F (called "Athletics" by the Olympics) in London, but not for any finals of premier events. We went into the lottery this year expecting trouble getting good tickets but actually got almost everything we asked for. We have T&F on the day of the women's 5K final and we also got the women's gold medal soccer (along with some less popular events like fencing and velodrome cycling). We asked for B tickets (the second most expensive) for each. The T&F tickets were the most expensive at $611 each for that day at the B level. No the hard part, which is matching up housing with the days that you have tickets for.... For whoever couldn't get marathons stadium tickets, I'm sure that there re still some available in some place like the allocation given to Ecuador or something. I have no idea how you would go about getting someone to purchase for you though.

sbeefyk2 wrote:

Ekiden's bring tens of thousands of people to watch. An Olympic marathon is better than the Ekiden. So yea it makes sense.

Ekiden’s what bring tens of thousands of people?