Mayor of London One if 250,000 to Miss Out on Olympic Tickets

More than 250,000 people who applied for London 2012 tickets have missed out entirely after the vast majority of money was taken from accounts at midnight last night, May 31.

Among some of the high profile unlucky applicants were triple Olympic champion Bradley Wiggins and the Mayor of London Boris Johnson, with the former stating on Twitter: “No Olympic tickets for the wife and kids to watch Team Pursuit, oh well sorry kids going to have to watch dad on the telly!”

Johnson was another to miss out on Olympic tickets in the random ballet though he claimed that this showed the ticket system was fair and really was a lottery, adding: “Clearly it’s been a massively popular thing and there’s no surprise the event has attracted so much demand for tickets but I’m massively disappointed and cheesed off.

“I am proud to be British. No other country or culture in the world would have a situation where the Mayor of the host city goes into a ballot for tickets for his family and gets rejected. I’m more than eager now to resubmit in July and have another crack and I fail I will reapply again. By hook or by crook I’m going to get into these Olympics.”

In total, there were 20 million ticket applications from 1.8 million people for the 6.6 million tickets available to the public via the controversial ballot, but London 2012 has claimed that the quarter-of-a-million that have been left ticketless will be contacted by email and offered an ‘exclusive window’ later this month to buy tickets for events where demand was relatively low.

London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe said: “Of course I understand that people who have not got tickets this morning will be extremely disappointed.

“But they will have first priority if they re-apply.”

Sports where tickets will still be available include football, volleyball, handball, basketball and hockey, but sessions in smaller arenas, such as the 6,000-seat Velodrome, have virtually sold out.