As the Evening Standard (UK) reported Tuesday (thanks to Robert Dittmer for the pointer),
London schoolchildren are eligible for 125,000 [free] Olympic tickets but these will not include any featuring guns, as Games organisers and City Hall fear a backlash from the anti-gun lobby.
Giving children tickets to the events, at the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, could have appeared at odds with Mayor Boris Johnson’s bid to quell teenage gun and knife crime.
A source said: “We decided it would not be appropriate. It’s the only sport children will not be able to go to as part of the Ticketshare scheme.” …
Fortunately, as The Telegraph (UK) reported today, the exclusion has now been reversed.