London 2012 chiefs are using a ticket giveaway as part of a charm offensive towards locals who object to Greenwich Park hosting the Olympic equestrian events.
Games organisers have given the local council thousands of tickets to distribute for a top-class horse-riding event in the park this summer.
The event, on the first weekend in July, is among an initial cluster of "test events", or dress rehearsals, for the Olympic venues.
Greenwich schoolchildren in the official education programme and riding club members will be given priority for tickets.
Top riders will compete in front of a 2,000-capacity crowd in an arena next to the Royal Maritime Museum, and the cross-country event is expected to draw crowds of 5,000.
Games chiefs opted to give tickets away as a gesture of goodwill to locals. Greenwich Park has proved the most controversial choice of Olympic venues, and the Queen's grand-daughter Zara Phillips has also complained that the venue will leave no legacy for the sport.
The first Games test event will be the Olympic marathon rehearsal on May 30, a bank holiday. Roads will be closed for up to 10 hours as 100 top British club athletes and some wheelchair racers try out the course. Runners will start at 6am and follow a route starting and finishing at the Mall.
It is followed by the Bupa 10K mass race at 11am, and the race walk test is later the same day along The Mall and Constitution Hill.
Basketball is the first Olympic Park test event in August, followed by BMX. Tickets for these go on sale in May.
