Speaking to journalists in Ljubljana, Gabrovec stated that the Olympic Committee has analyzed all the procedures and that no mistakes were made by Slovenia’s umbrella sporting organization. During the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, a controversy emerged about ticket scalping. The resold tickets reportedly included those allocated to the Slovenian Olympic Committee.

“We’re clean”
“We carried out an investigation within the Olympic Committee to see if everything was clean and done according to the rules on our part. We also checked if any unintentional mistakes were made. Our joint findings indicate that we are clean and that the Committee never took part in any of the alleged actions,” said Gabrovec, who forcefully condemned individual pubic statements to the contrary. He added that he was upset by those statements and that, had it been his decision to make, he would have filed lawsuits against the individuals who had made the claims.

Out of 658 allocated tickets, 154 have been returned
"The Slovenian Olympic Committee had 958 tickets worth 99,927 dollars at its disposal at the Rio Olympics. Of these, 154 ended up being returned at the end of the games, which is normal because it’s impossible to predict the exact demand beforehand and to know, for instance, how far the handball team will advance and how many tickets we are going to need in total. Perhaps our only mistake was that the contract did not specify what we could do with the returned tickets,” added Gabrovec.

He also touched on soccer tickets that were suspected of being used improperly. “In contrast to some claims, we never had tickets for the final. We did, however, have 14 tickets for the semifinal in which Brazil faced off against Honduras and we invited guest of the Olympic committee to that game. We didn’t have any other tickets.”

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Translated by J. B.