However around 15,000 people who thought they had secured tickets have been told they will not receive them – after booking seats to already sold out events because the booking website was not updated quickly enough.
The Ticketmaster system was designed for the ballot arrangement used for the first round for sales where live updating was not required.
Problems soon occurred early on in the second round of ticketing, a first-come-first-served basis, where tickets were withdrawn from sale manually by a team of operatives.
A London 2012 spokeswoman said: ‘Over 150,000 applications have been processed since Friday for around 850,000 tickets. Just under 90% received tickets, subject to payment’.
‘Around 10% have not been successful due to the massive demand during the first two hours of sales where 10 sports sold out, some within 15 minutes’.
Only tickets for football, volleyball, Greco-Roman wrestling and freestyle wrestling events remain on sale after LOCOG confirmed many sports had sold out, with most of the successful applicants having been notified by email on Sunday.
Ten of the 24 sports with tickets available at the start of the process sold out in the first two hours and 18 of them were sold out by Friday evening, followed by boxing and weightlifting on Saturday.
LOCOG chair Seb 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’.
The current second chance ticket window lasts until 17th July.
Published: 28/06/2011
Source: http://www.sportindustry.biz/news/view/10022/second-attempt-for-olympic-tickets
