Public tickets for the equestrian events at the 2008 Olympic Games will go on sale in Hong Kong early next week at China Travel Services outlets - and the good news for residents hoping to taste the Olympic experience is that there will be more of them than expected.
Hong Kong Equestrian Federation secretary Soenke Lauterbach said Hong Kong had been given a bigger share of the tickets for the equestrian events because the Beijing Organising Committee for the Olympic Games had included Hong Kong under the domestic sales allocation for those events.
As a result, nearly 60,000 tickets are expected to be available to the local public.
'Hong Kong was given only a few before, but we now learn that half of the tickets for the equestrian events will be given to the Hong Kong market,' Ms Lauterbach told members at the equestrian federation's annual general meeting.
'I believe we will get perhaps half of the 75 per cent available under the mainland allocation,' she said.
Pang Chung, secretary-general of the Hong Kong Olympic Committee, said tickets would go on sale next week.
'They will go on sale on Monday or Tuesday at China Travel Service outlets,' said Mr Pang.