IT'S SCANDALOUS!

By HELENE ELLIOTT

June 24, 1998 12 AM PT

Because of the ticket scandal, the French Organizing Committee decided not to announce the exact attendance at each game.

There have been some empty seats at games because the committee has set aside some tickets for volunteers and those seats are not always used. Organizers fear that fans who sought tickets will become angry when they realize seats went unoccupied.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

IT’S SCANDALOUS!

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