What is a "scalper"? It originally refers to those ticket sellers who resell tickets near the station to make huge profits. They do not refer to a single individual, but a special group with certain organizations and their own "industry norms". However, as large-scale competitive sports competitions have attracted more and more attention in recent years, commercial performances have become more and more popular. The "scalper" has also ushered in the spring of its own development. Their figures are no longer limited to the stations, and the ticket sales points of sports competitions and entertainment performances have become the best stage for them to show their skills. As long as there are hot events and excellent performances, they will keenly seize the opportunity and make a big profit. Of course, the only one who suffers from the loss is the ordinary people.

Although the World Youth Track and Field Championships are the top competitions with the highest standards in international track and field events, due to the IAAF's rigid regulations on the age limit of the contestants (men are 19 years old and women are under 18 years old), this is destined that most of the best top players in the world today cannot participate, which directly determines that the competitive level of this event is far from major events such as the Olympics and the World Championships. In previous World Youth Championships, it has never attracted much attention from the international and hosting people. However, this World Youth Championship held in Beijing is different, not only because the 2008 Olympics will be held here, but China has produced a Li Tian.

It is precisely because of this genius boy who suddenly emerged that the entire China has set off a craze for track and field in China, and the trend of this craze is even more intense than when Liu Xiang won the gold medal in the Chinese men's track and field short event in 2004. Therefore, the people in Beijing are unprecedented in paying attention to this World Youth Track and Field Championships. From 80 to 10-year-olds, everyone's topics cannot be separated from the content of this competition. It also entrusted Li Tian's blessing. The "scalpers" in Beijing discovered this huge "business opportunity" early, and they didn't care about the severity of the crackdown at this critical moment, almost all of them came out, so they became the happiest person outside the field.

The venue for the World Youth Track and Field Championships is very distinctive and was specially selected by the IAAF in Beijing to be held in the Sports, Fitness and Leisure Park. This is the first time that the IAAF has decided to hold a world-class major event in the park. On the other hand, it also inspected Chaoyang District as the venue for the 2008 Olympic Games event, and its organizational and adaptive capabilities of the event.

Chaoyang District Sports, Fitness and Leisure Park is located at No. 77 Yaojiayuan Road, Chaoyang District, with Fifth Ring Road to the east, Yaojiayuan Road to the south, and Dongba Township to the north. It covers an area of ​​382 acres. It is surrounded by a newly developed large-scale residential area with a dense population and very convenient transportation, which is very convenient for the people to perform various fitness exercises.

Chaoyang Sports Fitness and Leisure Park aims to create an international sports center city image area, so the investment was extremely considerable when it was designed at that time. The corresponding large-scale supporting facilities were also quite complete. Not only were there a central track and field field, fitness path, four standard basketball courts, four standard tennis courts, as well as natural grass, artificial grass football fields, baseball courts, softball courts and other sports fitness and leisure places of a certain scale, which are open to the outside world. The central stadium has one artificial turf standard football field, an international standard plastic track, and 8,000 fixed seats are available. In order to meet the requirements of this competition, the event organizing committee organized personnel to increase 20 around the central track and field field two months ago.

More than 000 temporary seats, when the competition is reached, it can accommodate about 30,000 spectators to watch the game. There are about 100 rooms in the park, including audio systems, closed-circuit surveillance systems, fire center control systems, broadband networks and large screens, and can host various large-scale events. On the west side of the central stadium, a natural grass football field is built, which can be used for athletes' warm-up practice venues at any time. In addition, the sports park also has a green parking lot with 300 parking spaces. The construction of the sports fitness and leisure park will strive to achieve international integration, hoping to become a first-class leisure park in the country as soon as possible. In the five days from May 13 to May 17, all Chinese people will be attracted here.

In the wide square outside the Chaoyang District Sports, Fitness and Leisure Park, what makes people feel is particularly crowded at this moment. The eight "long dragons" arranged from the ticket windows of the World Youth Championships all windingly and to more than 2,000 meters away. Tens of thousands of enthusiastic sports fans came here early to wait for the official start of the ticket sales at 10 o'clock in the morning. Due to the restrictions on the venue of this competition, the number of tickets for each game is relatively limited, and the five-day competition will be held for a five-day competition.

Cheng Yi was divided into ten games in total. Calculated by 30,000 tickets per game, the total number of tickets for the World Youth Championship is only about 300,000. This number is simply not worth mentioning for Beijing, which has a population of tens of millions. There is no problem with all of them being digested. Therefore, the event organizing committee has studied and decided that the ticket sales time of this competition will only start forty-eight hours before the start of the competition, which is to be held at 10 o'clock this morning.

"Damn! I skipped class today. I got up from bed at three o'clock in the morning and arrived here. Now I have been waiting for almost seven hours now, but the ticket windows are still not moving at all! There are so many people coming, so the people on the organizing committee will not be flexible and mobile depending on the situation. So when will we be able to buy tickets?" In the middle of one of the "long dragons" teams, a young man in his early twenties stood on tiptoe and looked at the ticket window in front of him, and complained in anger.

"Young man, you're useless to be poor now. Everyone is anxious to wait. I feel even more anxious when you call me like this! I have to wait for a long time, and I came earlier than you. I rushed over from Fengtai West Station at 1:00 a.m., and I stood here all night, and today I was not allowed to discuss absent from work by the head of the company. But I didn't expect that I had already arrived so early but I still occupied a little further in the middle. You can imagine when the people in front came, maybe they had already opened yesterday.

We're queuing up. Haven't you seen some people in front of you bring tents and sleeping bags? We're really nothing compared to them... But we should be quite lucky. We can probably buy tickets in our position. It would be hard to say if we line up a little later. There are only a few tickets, so how can such a large group of people be divided? And those who have just arrived are even more out of the way." A middle-aged man in his forties who were in front of the young man turned around and said to him.

"The people who have been queuing up since yesterday are nothing! I have to pass by here every day when I go to school and after school. As far as I know, someone had already set up camp here four days ago to buy tickets. Have you seen the yellow tent in the front row over there? It's the 'magic'. When I walked here at school four days ago, I noticed that it was already here. People like this are truly super hardcore track and field fans." Another young sports fan who skipped class and went to buy tickets was proudly showing off his knowledge to the two.

"I have no interest in track and field competitions, nor are I a sports fan. I just want to support Li Tian on the field. I have always wanted to see Li Tian's heroic posture on the field. I used to see him running in the newspapers, so handsome." A girl who was even higher than the three of them said with excitement. Judging from her position, she should have been waiting here since the second half of yesterday. Her spirit is no worse than this group of big men.

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"It's finally started!" At ten o'clock in the morning, under the gaze of tens of thousands of pairs of eyes, sixteen staff opened the business windows of eight ticket sales sites, and the flow of people finally began to move slowly.

This time, the ticket sales organizing committee divided the tickets into four levels: A, B, C and D according to the position of the stand. The A ticket has the best position and the ticket price is the highest. The ticket price for a single game is 1,000 yuan/ticket, and the ticket price for a Class B ticket is slightly inferior. The price is 800 yuan/ticket, and the ticket price for a Class C ticket is 400 yuan/ticket. The tickets of this level are the largest, and the sports fans order the largest. The seats are located at the edge of the stands are divided into the category of D tickets, which are priced at 200 yuan/ticket. Different ticket prices meet the needs of different income groups. In addition, the event organizing committee has specially launched a certain number of tickets, which are slightly discounted than a single ticket purchase.

"I bought it! Haha... I didn't waste my whole day waiting for me, and finally I bought it for me!" From time to time, people who bought tickets came out of the front row, and raised the tickets in their hands with great excitement. They waited patiently for a long time and finally had a result, which at the same time attracted the envy of the people in the back row.

The "long dragon" is constantly moving forward, and people who purchased tickets have also withdrawn from the team, but the length of the team has always increased and more new people have joined the queue again. However, "there are too many people and less porridge" is a fact. The limited number of tickets cannot meet the needs of more and more sports fans who arrived. In just two hours of the sale, all the package tickets were sold out, and nearly one-fifth of the various scattered tickets were sold out. At four o'clock in the afternoon, all the tickets at the eight ticketing points were sold out, and tens of thousands of sports fans who came late could only leave empty-handedly with great regrets. At this time, it was the time when the "scalpers" began to become active.

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