SCHOOLCHILDREN could be offered seats left empty at the 2012 Olympics, the London Mayor has said.
Boris Johnson revealed the proposal while he was being interviewed by students as part of a BBC initiative.
He said children could be put on standby and then given free tickets if corporate guests failed to show.
The mayor added that he wanted to avoid the sparse attendance seen at some events during the Beijing Olympics, which had officially sold out.
He said: “if we basically know that we're going to have a really good event that for one reason or another the corporate people haven't turned up, then we say 'listen - get on down and come and see the final of the basketball,' or whatever it happens to be."
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