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From staff and wire reports
Local interest in the Olympic
Festival will heat up on July 16,
when the Olympic Torch comes
to the Southern Part of Heaven.
"The event will really generate
excitement about the Festival,"
said Barabara Staab, torch run
coordinator. "It's going to be a lot
of fun."
According to Staab, the Olym
pic flame will come into town early
Thursday morning in front of the
Chapel Hill Newspaper Office on
Franklin Street, where Carrboro
Mayor Jim Porto will hand off the
torch to Chapel Hill Mayor James
Wallace. ESPN camera crews will
be on hand to provide live tele
vision coverage.
The torch will be passed down
Franklin Street to the Post Office,
Staab said, where a sculpture by
UNC art lecturer Al Frega has
been set up to house the Olympic
flame during the Festival. After
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torch run will continue through
the town and across the campus
before going on to Durham.
The campus torch route runs
through McCorkle Place to the
Old Well, down Cameron Avenue
to Raleigh Street, up South Road
and past the Bell Tower to Pitts
boro Street, down Pittsboro Street
to Manning Drive, back up Ridge
Road to Country Club Road, and
then back to Franklin Street,
Staab said.
Several individuals and com
munity groups will participate in
the run, including Town Council
members, a team from the Chapel
Hill Police Department, members
of the UNC-system Board of
Governors, and former UNC
athletes Phil Ford and Steve and
Eric Streater.
"We're really excited that weVe
got such a good cross-section of
people from the area," Staab said.
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Festival tickets selling well;
hooiDS tickets still available
From staff and wire reports
Ticket sales for the U.S. Olym
pic Festival have reached the 1.7
million mark, surpassing the
original target goal of $ 1 .5 million,
officials announced last
Wednesday.
But many tickets are still avail
able for the basketball sessions in
the Smith Center and will be sold
at the gate before each game. The
21,444 seating capacity of the
Smith Center means there may be
many empty seats, officials said,
although the basketball attend-
ance is expected to break all
festival records for the sport.
However, this doesnt mean that
basketball fans should wait until
game day to buy tickets. Accord
ing to Ben Whittaker, a media
relations intern at the festival
headquarters in Durham, tickets
for the gold-medal basketball
round on July 22 are selling
Ticket prices
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Baseball Boshamer GeaAdm. $4 All Medals $8 $15 for afl four
Basketball Smith Cnt Reserved $6 Gold Medals $10 $40 for all eight
Fencing Xarmichael GeaAdm. $4 $10 for all five
Field Hockey Astroturf Fid Gen. Adm $3 All Medals $5 $25 for all 10
Gymnastics Smith Cnt Reserved $10 $35 for all four
Swimming KouryNat GeaAdm. $10
Volleyball Carmichael GeaAdm. $5 All Medals $7 $36 for all eight
Water Polo KouryNat GeaAdm. $4 Medal Games $5 $24 for all 14
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rapidly. "They've already started
selling upper-level seats," he said.
Whittaker said he believed
ticket sales would improve after
the festival publicity heats up this
week.
"I think ticket sales will sky
rocket once the torch comes
through the Triangle and people
start hearing more about the
Festival," Whittaker said.
"We're coming out with a heavy
ad campaign designed to get more
people involved in the Festival,"
he added. "We're still a long ways
from being sold out."
None of the 34 sports events has
sold out with the exception of
certain sessions of diving and
swimming and there are still
tickets available for the July 17
opening ceremonies at Carter
Finley Stadium in Raleigh.
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their goal for ticket sales, Festival
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officials can use the surplus to
alleviate a deficiency in corporate
sponsorship of the event, executive
director Hill Carrow announced in
a July 1 press conference. Festival
officials had planned to take in
$2.4 million in corporate and
individual donations, but had
received only $2.25 million as of
July 1.
The overall budget for the
Festival is $5 million, and if the
Festival makes a profit, the funds
will be divided between the U.S.
Olympic Committee and North
Carolina Amateur Sports.
July 1 was the last day of group
ticket sales, and the deadline has
passed for student discount appli
cations but tickets will still be
sold at Ticketron outlets through
out the Triangle.
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