£150 tickets and no junior concessions: fans blame pricing for 10,000 empty seats at European Athletics Championships

Category A home-straight seats at Birmingham's European Athletics Championships cost £150 with no junior concessions — double the £75 equivalent at the 2024 Rome edition. Nearly 10,000 of 23,000 seats sat empty across the opening sessions. Supporters called prices "extortionate"; organisers said they were "delighted" with sales and expect later sessions to sell out.