Friday, June 17, 2011

London 2012: More Olympics tickets to go on sale


Some 2.3 million tickets for London 2012 are set to go on sale next week, organisers have announced.

The tickets, for people who were unsuccessful in the initial ballot, will go on sale at 0600 BST on 24 June on a first come, first served basis.
Of these, 1.7 million are for football matches and 600,000 for other sports, including archery and hockey.
Nearly two-thirds of applicants - some 1.2 million out of 1.9 million - missed out on tickets first time around.
London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe said: "It has been a massive demand which has created huge disappointment.
"I would be hard pushed to see such a demand for any sports event in my lifetime."
Organisers were "absolutely determined" to get tickets to those who had missed out, he added.
"Our commitment is to get two-thirds of those 1.9 million people to buy a ticket for the 2012 Games if they want to - and we know... they were involved in the application process, are mad sports fans and they want to be there."
Tickets are still available for 310 sessions, 44 of which are medal events including archery, basketball, fencing, judo, synchronised swimming and table tennis.
Available sessions
Some half a million tickets will be priced at £20 or less, with a further one million priced between £20 and £50.
which they have sent to applicants who did not receive tickets in the ballot.
Applicants will find out whether they have been successful within 24 to 48 hours of applying. Payment will be taken once the sale closes at 1800 BST on 3 July.

Sports fans will be able to apply for up to three sessions and six tickets per session for most sports, although football, volleyball and race walk will have larger limits.
BBC sports news correspondent James Pearce said the ticketing system was not designed for a first come, first serve basis, so the system will not automatically know when all tickets for a session have gone.
He said staff would have to monitor sales in order to remove a session when sold out.
In the first round of sales:

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