A spokesman for Visa confirmed Monday to MayorWatch that non-Visa debit and quotation cardholders can leverage Olympic tickets done many Visa Branded pre-pay cards.
Organizers reportedly sustain aforementioned they leave not appropriate multitude to use Master Card or American Express cards pursual an arrangement 'tween Visa and London 2012 for Visa to go the lonesome scorecard requital supplier for the London 2012 Games. The sponsorship correspondence had been wide criticized in late weeks.
It has too been reported that lone Visa cards testament be recognised at shops and cash machines at Olympic venues.
A spokesman for Visa Europe aforementioned Monday, "multitude who don't presently let a Visa debit or citation menu are able-bodied to receive a Visa postpaid menu, which can be secondhand to leverage Olympic Games tickets and to pay in Olympic Games venues. People can besides select to pay by cash or check".
A London 2012 spokesman told the BBC, "Visa volition be the functionary carte and defrayment organization for London 2012 in the like way as for the Beijing Games in 2008 and the Vancouver Games originally this year".
