London 2012 Olympic tickets still selling swiftly despite hiccups
The second round of ticket sales for the 2012 Olympics started on Friday with hundreds waiting to get a seat for the big event next year. Despite the fact that there was a ten days time for the tickets to be sold, it was on a first come and first serve basis.
As a result, many tickets were sold out within hours. However, the public has largely ignored several seats that are still available for football as well as volleyball.
There may be several reasons for these sports not yet registering a full house at their venues but one of them is probably the fact that the venues for these sports are larger than the rest. Other than that, none of the unsold events are being held at the
Olympics Park, which has generated a lot of interest among the applicants for tickets. Other than football and volleyball, boxing, canoe sprint, judo, mountain biking, weightlifting and wrestling have also been shunned by audiences.
In the first round of ticket sales, 700,000 applicants were successful in getting their hands on the seats. Out of the total that applied for the tickets, 1.2 million were left without tickets. LOCOG, the main organizer for the London 2012 Olympics, has
adopted a ballot style procedure for ticket sales in which the applicant first gives in an application which gets selected based on a ballot. Once the names of the lucky few come out of the ballot, they are given notification of their seats and the events
that they will be witnessing. The whole process takes several days, with the applicants not knowing what events they will be allotted.
Largely because of the secrecy and delay in the first-chance sales of tickets, there was significant disappointment felt by the applicants as they finally got to know of their seats and events after LOCOG sent out a mass email relaying the information.
In this second round of ticket sales, the applicants were given a time period of 49 hours after which they will find out whether their names are among those who got selected to be eligible for the tickets.
The third round of ticket sales will not begin until next year and the 1.3 million tickets will be made available at that time. However, according to a poll conducted by the
Telegraph, 13 percent of the people who are interested in the Olympics tickets are not happy with the sports that are still available. However, applicants still seem willing to give it a shot next year when the tickets come out for sale.
The excitement is still there despite the disappointment because the event under question is once in a life time opportunity for fans to witness live.
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