RIO DE JANEIRO (CBSNewYork) — Rio 2016 organizers are reportedly giving away more than 200,000 tickets to the Olympics due to low attendance. USA Today and The Guardian reported 240,00 tickets will be given to underprivileged children in Rio de Janeiro in an effort to fill the stands. Mario Andrada, director of communications for Rio 2016, said the tickets will go to children who took part in education programs related to the Summer Olympics. “There are several sports that are unknown to the youth, like golf and rugby. We teach these kids Olympic values, we teach them how to play sports,” Andrada told The Guardian. Andrada continued, “The social program will kick in in the sports we don’t know. In field hockey for example, the kids learn how to play and had a lot of fun, but they never saw a real field hockey game.” Other sports the children will get tickets for are golf and rugby. Andrada added that nearly 80 percent of the 7.5 million tickets had been sold for the Olympics. “There will be 240,000 kids across different projects in different areas. We reached 100 percent of the projected revenue,” he told The Guardian. “We sold the most expensive tickets, so we can afford to give some away.” However, there have already been tens of thousands of empty seats for two women’s soccer matches. Ticket expert Doug Knittle, CEO of Travoom.com, told USA Today that people are having trouble trying to sell their Olympic tickets. “You can’t s
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