One in eight London schoolchildren to get free Games tickets
London 2012 Chair Seb Coe and Mayor of London Boris Johnson have sent out a rallying cry to schools to ensure they do not miss out on tickets to London 2012. LOCOG Chair Seb Coe and Mayor of London Boris Johnson meet pupils from The Compton School in Barnet to promote the Ticketshare scheme. A total of 125,000 tickets are available to London schoolchildren More...
London 2012: Support ‘high’ despite ‘unfair’ ticketing
About 57% of Londoners feel the ticketing procedure for the 2012 Olympics was “not fair” but this has not dented support for the event, a survey found. Of the 1,000 people surveyed, 73% backed London More...
London 2012 announces wide range of ticket products for disabled people
London 2012 has announced a wide range of ticket products that will help ensure disabled people have a great experience at the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Tickets are on sale for the London 2012 Olympic Games More...
More than half did not get tickets
More than half of people who applied for London 2012 Olympic Games tickets did not receive any in the ballot, Londonolympics-2012.net has learnt. Some 1.8 million people applied for the 6.6 million public tickets More...
London 2012 Paralympic ticket process on track
The London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG) has today confirmed that it is on target to complete the process of taking payment for Paralympic tickets by the end of October. Ballots have now been completed across More...
250,000 miss out on tickets for the London Olympics
20million applications made for just 6.6million seats 9,000 tickets reserved for civil servants and VIPs Games head set for £130k pay-off – paid for by sales A quarter of a million people who applied for More...
London 2012 Olympics: money to be taken from ticket applicants
Olympic ticket applicants should keep an eye on their bank accounts and credit card balances from today as London 2012 begin to withdraw money from successful applicants. The date to begin withdrawals from applicants More...
The real problem with the tickets fiasco
When Britain landed the Olympics, we were promised that the result would be a surge of interest in sport and healthy living. Instead, the Games have quickened our interest in quite another topic: higher mathematics. More...
London 2012 announces Paralympic Games ticket prices
The London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG) today published its prices for Paralympic Games tickets, with more than half of the two million tickets available priced at £10 or less. Paralympians David Weir, Tanni More...
Applications for 100m tickets top one million
More than one million ticket applications have been made for the men’s 100 metres final at the London 2012 Olympics. Only 40,000 seats are available through the public ballot as the Olympic Stadium also has More...