DESPITE the hefty price tag which will come with travelling to the English capital for next summer’s Olympics, the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) has already received two-times more requests for the approximately 1,600 tickets that it has been allocated for the 2012 London Games.

At yesterday’s rate of exchange of $142.00 to £1, the estimated cost for a single individual to travel to London for two weeks during the Games to watch the athletic competition from August 3-11 while sitting in the cheapest seats at the Olympic Stadium would be just over half-a-million Jamaican dollars — approximately $503,284. Read more >>

Source: Jamaica Observer