750,000 Second Chance 2012 Tickets Sold

The ‘second chance’ round of London 2012 Olympic ticket sales closed at 6pm on Sunday, selling more than 750,000 seats to 150,000 people – although 1.5m tickets remain untouched.

The second chance of phase one of Olympic ticketing was open to those who did not receive any tickets in the first round sale, earlier this year.

London 2012 organisers have now said that over 3.5m tickets have now been sold.

The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) said that the only sports for which tickets are still available are football, volleyball and freestyle wrestling.

Around 1.5m tickets will be available in the next round of ticketing for men’s and women’s football matches at venues such as Wembley Stadium, the Millennium Stadium, St James’s Park, Hampden Park and Old Trafford.

40,000 volleyball tickets are available for volleyball sessions at Earl’s Court, while 8,000 wrestling tickets at Excel are also available.

More tickets will go on sale between 8th and 17th July to 700,000 applicants who were successful in the first round, and wish to purchase more.

A full list of the available sessions and price categories will be published this week on the official Olympic ticket website.

Chris Townsend, commercial director for LOCOG, said: ‘We now have at least 150,000 more successful applicants – and they and their friends and families are now going to the Games’.
 
‘Our goal is to get as many members of the British public to the Games as possible, and we have sold over 750,000 tickets to people who were unsuccessful in the first round’.