Olympic tickets

Thea

Sucess here as well! Got tickets to the athletics on the 7th. Still dissapointed i didnt get the 9th with a chance to see Usain Bolt esp since i was waiting for my payment to be processed. But happy neither the less!:j

photome

Thea wrote: »

Sucess here as well! Got tickets to the athletics on the 7th. Still dissapointed i didnt get the 9th with a chance to see Usain Bolt esp since i was waiting for my payment to be processed. But happy neither the less!:j

I got tickets in the morning of the 7th (200m) did you get the evening

Thea

No i got the morning event, the evening was not available! Still happy

photome

Thea wrote: »

No i got the morning event, the evening was not available! Still happy

In that case you should see Usain bolt as the morning includes the first round of the 200m

stephenliverpool1

Does anyone know whether the 1 million tickets up for sale post December 2011 covers all events including athletics ?

wozearly

stephenliverpool1 wrote: »

Does anyone know whether the 1 million tickets up for sale post December 2011 covers all events including athletics ?

My understanding is that from December its whatever tickets have become available via;

a) Situations where someone wasn't able to pay for the ticket(s) they'd bought

b) Anything left over after next week's second round of clean-up sales

c) Any tickets that Olympic sponsors, LOCOG or the press give back

The mysterious "contingency" and "fitting out of venues" references suggests that for the pre-built arenas, they might not have sold all of the tickets they could have at this stage.


So, yes...potentially that includes athletics. But as its one of the more popular events, there are less likely to be any returns or leftovers. I sincerely doubt there'll be any random spares for the 100m gold medal final.

mellancholy - on the same note, my guess is they'll do something similar to this round, so people who've already applied and not received any tickets will get a headstart on applying for the final wave of tickets in December, but it will ultimately be opened up to everyone and anyone.

There'll also be the re-sale site, once that's up and running next year.

kavics17

We got football quarter final but not handball and our application was in by 6.24 a.m. Disappointed for not getting handball but glad we got football.

melancholly

wozearly wrote: »

mellancholy - on the same note, my guess is they'll do something similar to this round, so people who've already applied and not received any tickets will get a headstart on applying for the final wave of tickets in December, but it will ultimately be opened up to everyone and anyone.

so that's any chance of athletics or cycling gone for me! i probably would have waited and chanced it for then instead, had i known (but being psychic appears to have been the most important skill needed to get tickets.... not good for me!!)

head2head83

No tickets in the second ballot either . Only applied for athletics though so that probably shot us in the foot before we started. Good to hear that 90% of applicants got something this time round. Just a bit gutted I'm one of only 15,000 who didn't.

December release it is then!

wozearly

melancholly wrote: »

so that's any chance of athletics or cycling gone for me! i probably would have waited and chanced it for then instead, had i known (but being psychic appears to have been the most important skill needed to get tickets.... not good for me!!)

Some of the preliminaries for athletics may become available, but I'd be surprised if any 'good' tickets do for athletics or cycling unless its via official resale, and they're likely to go like hot cakes just like they have so far.

You could still get to see the road cycling, marathon, etc. for free, if you're willing/able to get to the route early (as its likely to be jam packed), as there are no tickets for events that are conducted in public places.