Thousands More London 2012 Olympic Tickets Available

London 2012 organisers has put another 50,000 Olympic tickets on sale as it continues to finalise seating and venue plans with 42 days to go to the Games.

The London Organising Commitee (LOCOG) says they’re for Basketball, Diving, Hockey, Waterpolo, Handball and Modern Penthalon. Its also selling more tickets to go up the UK’s largest sculpture The Orbit, but you need to have tickets for the Olympic Park already to get in.

LOCOG Commercial Director Chris Townsend said “This release of tickets gives people a great chance to attend sport in the popular Olympic Park venues.  Tickets for further events will follow in due course and we will inform our ticketing database directly.”  

There are 25,000 Hockey tickets and a limited number for Diving, Handball, Modern Pentathlon, Water Polo, Basketball and the Orbit are on sale.

Its also been revealed the Olympic ticket re-sale website is available again for those that can no longer attend or don’t want the tickets they have.

Organisers say they can be sold back via the website – but they then won’t be available to everyone to buy til later this month released on a sport by sport basis. Tickets have to be validated before being released.  If sold, the customer will be notified by email, then refunded within 5-10 working days of the ticket being sold, subject to LOCOG receiving the original tickets back.  If the ticket remains unsold it will be returned to the customer’s account. 

In January the re-sale website crashed and was offline for more than a week because of the number of people using it.

“For those people who are no longer able to attend, or cannot give their tickets to friends or family, they can now use our resale platform.  This will enable people to resell their tickets in a safe and legal way.” Chris Townsend said.