Visa's exclusive Olympics 'cashless' deal turns sour as system fails
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<div class="glw-authors">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/4349">Rory MacKinnon</a></span>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/2543">London</a></div><p>Olympic organisers and their corporate sponsor Visa were still keeping keep mum on August 1 after yet another ironic twist to their “cashless Olympics”.</p>
<p>Hungry spectators at Wembley to see Team GB women's victory over Brazil took to social networks on the night of July 31 to complain of a second breakdown in three days of payment systems at food counters “proud to only accept Visa” under the company's exclusive sponsorship deal.</p>
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