Unprecedented Demand for London 2012 Tickets Continues

Tickets remain only for football, volleyball and wrestling at London 2012 after another 850,000 tickets were sold in the second round sale last Friday, as demand for tickets to the game remains high.

The first-come first-served second round scramble for tickets was open to the 1.2 million people who had failed to secure any tickets in the original sale, which was decided by a ballot system.

More than 150,000 applications have been processed since Friday for around 850,000 tickets. Just under 90 per cent have received tickets, subject to payment.

With still more than a year to go until the Olympics are due to start, 23 of the sports are now completely sold-out. This is unprecedented in the history of the Games.

There were 2.3 million tickets on sale and 24 sports were in the second round sale, 18 of which were sold out by Friday evening, the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG) confirmed.

Only tickets for football, which had 1.7 million tickets for sale in the second round, volleyball, which is due to take place at Earls Court, Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling, at ExCel, remain for sale.

This massive demand meant about 10 per cent were not successful in this round.

Sebastian Coe, the chairman of London 2012, said: “Over 130,000 more people will now have tickets to the Games following the first day of the ‘second chance sale’ on Friday.

“We know there is still some disappointment from those who were not successful in their requests but we will continue to do everything we can to get them to the Games.”

Those who were successful in the first round will get another chance to buy tickets from 6am on July 8 to 6pm on July 17. Another major round of ticket sales will take place early in 2012.

Coe added: “Over a million new tickets will be offered to the British public next year from contingency seats, once venues are tested and licensed, and we aim to get as many of these tickets as possible into the hands of customers who have missed out to date.”