Empty seats and ‘tone deaf’ £150 tickets – athletics has a big problem

The European Athletics Championships in Birmingham has been mostly watched by a half-empty stadium of people overpaying for the privilege

Britain loves sport yet ticket sales for the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham have been slow. Ed Warner wonders why. British sport has a capacity problem or a bandwidth one, depending on which way you want to look at it. Too many seats in too many venues with too few bums to fill them. Or…

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Many critics have blamed the price of tickets for the sparse-looking stadium.

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