Following the application process for London 2012 Paralympic Games tickets, the London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG) has confirmed that over 100,000 applicants have applied for more than one million tickets. 116,000 people applied for 1.14 million Paralympic Games tickets between 9 September and 26 September 2011. Many sports were oversubscribed, including some Wheelchair Rugby [...]
We asked how you had fared in the London 2012 ticket ballot. Here’s our analysis of the information you gave us How much money did London 2012 ticket buyers have to put on the line to stand even a 50:50 chance of getting at least one ticket? If the results submitted by our readers are to [...]
The London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG) today urged members of the Armed Forces to sign up to be in with a chance of receiving free London 2012 tickets. LOCOG Chair Seb Coe and Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson launch the scheme with service men and women from the Armed Forces A total of 10,000 tickets will be [...]
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 [...]
With 6 days remaining of the London 2012 Paralympic Games tickets application period, the London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG) has announced that there is still good availability across all sports. British Wheelchair Basketball players encourage the public to apply for tickets at the recent International Paralympic Day event in Trafalgar Square. Sports in the Olympic Park [...]
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 until 26 April 2011. When applying for tickets, people will be able to indicate additional accessibility requirements, such as [...]
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 available. About 55% of applicants missed out. There is a second ballot for those who were unsuccessful but no seats remain for [...]
The best seats at the Olympics will go to the shamed football chiefs of FIFA. The prized tickets are part of a £1.5million bonanza scooped by Sepp Blatter and his cronies for London 2012. They will enjoy the most sought-after views in the Olympic stadium and, as the Mail revealed on Saturday, rub shoulders with [...]
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 117 price categories in 80 sessions. On 18 October, LOCOG will begin taking payments from Visa cards and cashing cheques [...]
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 Olympic Games tickets have missed out entirely. Furious sports fans complained about the ‘farcical’ London 2012 ticketing system yesterday as [...]
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 Grey Thompson, Libby Clegg and Liz Johnson are joined by children from Holloway School to encourage the public to sign up for [...]
Following Friday’s second round sales, open to those people who had not successfully secured tickets in the first round, over 130,000 additional people now have tickets to next year’s Olympic Games. Over 150,000 applications have been processed since Friday for around 850,000 tickets. Just under 90 per cent received tickets, subject to payment. Around 60 per cent of [...]
Tickets for some of the first events in the London Prepares series, the London 2012 sports testing programme, are now available to purchase. Among the first London 2012 test events will be the London International Basketball Invitational – 16-21 August, Basketball Arena, Olympic Park Tickets are being sold on a first come, first served basis [...]
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Sochi Winter Olympics plans ‘on schedule’
MOSCOW (AFP) – The organising committee of 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi are confident all construction work will be completed by next year, Russia’s deputy prime minister Dmitry Kozak said Tuesday. “We are completely sure that we are capable of finishing the sports facilities next year,” Kozak said at a meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir [...]
A hare, a polar bear and a leopard have been chosen as the official Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games mascots following the results of a public vote. A ray of light and a snowflake will be the Paralympic Winter Games mascots. The polar bear has been chosen as one of the mascots for Sochi 2014 [...]
Sochi 2014 gets an Appraisal of its Volunteer Program at The Global Sports Forum
March 10th 2011, Barcelona – The international Global Sports Forum welcomed participants at the second “Global Sports Forum Trophy” ceremony to celebrate the most innovative and effective sport projects. A special award named in honor of the former International Olympic Committee president, Juan Antonio Samaranch was presented to Sochi 2014 President and CEO, Dmitry Chernyshenko [...]
The thinking behind the Paralympic Torch Relay
Our journey to today’s Paralympic Torch Relay announcement began a couple of years ago with a blank flipchart, and a room filled with Paralympians, creative minds and some of the most influential people within the Paralympic Movement. A series of simple questions started to form the backbone for what you see today. What do you [...]
London 2012 unveils Olympic Torch design
The London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG) today unveiled a prototype of the London 2012 Olympic Torch that will be carried by 8,000 inspirational Torchbearers on its journey across the UK next summer. The Torch stands 800mm high, and has a gold colour finish that embraces the qualities of the Olympic Flame. The Torch celebrates the [...]
A day in the life of a Torchbearer
Carrying the Olympic Flame will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The Torchbearers will help to shine a light on the best of their communities, as well as having their own moment to shine… Here’s a typical day in the life of a Torchbearer… You wake up in the morning and you’re excited: today’s the day. You [...]
Brasília event marks the 2,000 days to go to the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games
Brazilian Paralympic Committee pays homage to the Games Organizing Committee Leonardo Gryner and Andrew Parsons in Brasília (Exemplus/CPB) Reinforcing the policy of integrating the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games to the whole country, the Games Organizing Committee accepted the invitation from the Brazilian Paralympic Committee (CPB in the Portuguese acronym) and flew to [...]
Ceremony in Manaus celebrates 2,000 days for the Rio 2016 Games
Event took the spirit of the biggest sport event in the planet to the North of Brazil Celebration of 2,000 days for the Rio 2016 Games on Teatro Amazonas – (Photo: César Catingueira) The traditional Teatro Amazonas, one of the most important cultural patrimonies of the North of Brazil, was the scenario of the [...]
2016 days for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games!
Rio 2016 Rio 2016 is warming up the muscles and giving the best to make the Olympic Games a memorable event 2016 days. It seems a lot, but when dealing with the preparation for the Olympic Games, it is the exact number of days we need to achieve our main goal: deliver faultless Games. We, [...]
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