Olympic Ticket Applications Over 20m
The London 2012 Olympic organisers have announced that over 20m ticket requests were made for the Games during the application window, which closed Wednesday morning – an hour later than planned due to a late surge in users of the ticketing website.
Early indications suggest that around 1.8m people have submitted requests for the 6.6m tickets on sale to the public, with over 95% of applications made from the UK.
The London 2012 Olympic Games ticket process opened 15th March until this week, 26th April.
Applications were received for every session, for every sport, and across every price point, and tickets for over 50% of the 650 sessions will be allocated via a ballot due to oversubscription.
Track Cycling, Rhythmic Gymnastics, Triathlon, Modern Pentathlon, Equestrian (cross country) and both ceremonies became London 2012’s first sell out events in the initial public application process and will go to ballot, as will the majority of the sessions in Swimming and Tennis.
In the biggest ticketing exercise ever undertaken in the UK, the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) will now check and de-duplicate applications before running ballots across sessions which are oversubscribed and process applications.
LOCOG chair Sebastian Coe added: ‘We are thrilled with the response right across the board, in all sports and all sessions. Certain events have seen massive demand – for example the Opening Ceremony, which is more than 10 times oversubscribed, so there will understandably be disappointment and we will find a way to go back to those people with other tickets’.
‘What is most encouraging is that the majority of applications are for multiple tickets and for several sports, which shows that friends and family are planning to go to the Games together’.
Money will be taken from accounts from 10th May 2011 and customers will receive confirmation of which events they will receive tickets for in June.
Customers who are not successful in their initial application will be given further opportunities to apply for remaining tickets in June and July as part of the process.
