Ticket sales for London 2012 Olympics Live Site to be allocated on first-come first-serve basis
The director of London 2012 Coordination at the Greater London Authority, Neale Coleman, has recently announced that the tickets for the Live Sites of Olympics and Paralympics will be given on a first come first serve basis. This measure is being taken in
light of the chaos that was created during the allocation of tickets during the first and the second round of the London 2012 Olympics.
The first and the second round sales of tickets took place using a ballot system, where people initially filled in the applications for the tickets with their preferred events listed. The applications of the users were than selected randomly as finalists
for tickets. During the first round, a total of 700,000 applicants successfully got their hands on tickets, with a staggering 1.2 million left in the lurch. A significant number of candidates that were selected for the tickets did not get the events that they
had hoped for.
Coleman made the following statements regarding the ticket sales of Live Sites: "Access to the Live Sites in London during the Games will be ticketed and these tickets are likely to be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis so we will not see the
same problems that there were with the 2012 Olympic ticket random ballet. Therefore people will know straight away whether they have secured tickets to the Live Sites and not be left in the dark. We obviously don't have as many tickets for the Live Sites as
there were for the Olympic venues but we don't expect to see anywhere near the demand there was for Olympic tickets.”
The places that have been marked to act as Live Sites for the London 2012 Olympics include Hyde Park as well as Trafalgar Square among others. These places will be broadcas the Olympic and Paralympic games on big screens.
The commercial rights of Live Sites have been given to Live Nation, which will be featuring concerts and providing merchandising opportunities among other things.
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