Tickets.com selected as Official Supplier of ticket services for the 2010 Winter Games

Vancouver, BC - January 24, 2008 - The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) announced today that it has selected Tickets.com as its official supplier of ticket services within Canada for the 2010 Winter Games.

The five-year partnership provides Tickets.com with Official Supplier sponsorship rights in the "ticket service provider" category, in addition to the sponsorship rights to the Canadian Team participating at the Beijing 2008, Vancouver 2010 and London 2012 Olympic Games.

"The sale and distribution of tickets in Canada will be key to the success of the 2010 Winter Games and we have selected a ticketing service provider that will help us offer a user friendly, fair and equitable system for the distribution of tickets with excellence in customer service," said Caley Denton, Vice President, Ticketing and Consumer Marketing at VANOC. "Tickets.com has an impressive track record and extensive Olympic ticketing experience, having managed the successful ticketing programs for the Atlanta 1996 Summer Games, and the Salt Lake 2002 Winter Games. Tickets.com's Olympic ticketing engine was also the backbone for ticket sales and distribution for the Sydney 2000 Summer Games and the Torino 2006 Winter Games."

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