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Computer glitch delays Oly tix sale

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Published: Nov. 8, 2009 at 12:46 PM

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- The final round of ticket sales for 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics events has been delayed a week after a computer glitch, officials say.

Social media Web sites were flooded with complaints Saturday after would-be online ticket buyers found themselves unable to access the Olympics' ticket-selling site at the appointed time, the Vancouver Sun reported.

Caley Denton, the Vancouver Olympic Committee's vice president of ticketing, told the newspaper there was a problem with the connection between the Web site's "virtual waiting room" and the part of the site where the transactions are actually made.

"It was more of a configuration issue between the virtual waiting room and the site itself," Denton reportedly said. "I haven't had a good explanation yet as to how that happened."

He told the Sun the ticket vendor, Tickets.com, has resolved the problem and that the tickets would go on sale again on Nov. 14.

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