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  "textContent": "Los Angeles promised a hometown Olympics that locals could actually attend, then opened ticket sales with $5,000 seats, vanishing \"cheap\" options, and a 24% service fee. Nothing says community celebration like getting priced out of your own city.\n\n> Customers were shocked to find that tickets for LA28, which officials billed as \"affordable\" for locals, could cost a small fortune.\n\n— Read the rest \n\nThe post \"Affordable\" LA Olympics tickets arrive with $5,000 seats and a 24% convenience fee appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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