AN ESTIMATED 250,000 people who had applied online for tickets to the London 2012 Olympics are empty handed tonight, having failed to secure tickets in the first release by the event’s organisers.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson is one of those – but says he’s still going to push for a ticket.
Johnson said he was “slightly cheesed off” this morning to discover he hadn’t won any tickets, adding that he’s resolved to reapply for the next batch in July. He told the Telegraph he suspects the event organisers LOCOG may have done this deliberately “to cheer up everyone else”.
The Guardian reports that some left without tickets in this round were angry to discover that one man was allocated an astonishing £11,000-worth of tickets after bidding for £36,000-worth.
Organisers received some 1.8 million requests for tickets to the men’s 100 metres final. Only 40,000 seats were available to the public, though, after stadium capacity was halved because of sponsors, VIPs and the media.
Over 6 million tickets were available, but LOCOG have been criticised for failing to disclose detailed figures on just how many seats were available to the public for all of the most sought-after events.
If you applied for tickets, but haven’t had any money debited from your account by now, then it’s understood that you haven’t been allocated any tickets. However, organisers will be spending the next week contacting people who were allocated tickets but for some reason payment couldn’t be taken.
The organisers also say that people who were unsuccessful in this round will be given a second chance to buy tickets for the less-popular events.
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games said earlier this month that it is still considering bringing the Olympic flame to Dublin as it travels around the UK before arriving at the Olympic Stadium in London on 27 July to mark the opening of the games.
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