Olympic fans who missed out on tickets for the London Games will get another opportunity this week, including a chance of securing high-demand seats for the opening ceremony or 100-meter final. Olympic organisers said today they are putting nearly 1 million tickets on sale, with priority given to those people who were unsuccessful in previous rounds. The 900,000 tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis to the nearly 1 million people in Britain who applied previously but came up empty handed. “We know thousands of sports fans were disappointed when they missed out in the initial sales period because of the massive demand for tickets,” organising committee chairman Sebastian Coe said. “We promised we would prioritise these fans when we released the contingency tickets, which is exactly what we are doing.”
The tickets will go on sale online at the official website www.tickets.london2012.com starting at 11 a.m. local time on Friday. Organising committee chief executive Paul Deighton said about 5,000 tickets would be available for the men’s 100-meter final on the evening of Aug. 5 that is expected to feature reigning Olympic champion and world record-holder Usain Bolt. Also on sale will be the remaining 5,000 tickets for the opening ceremony and 5,000 for the closing ceremony. First priority will be given to the 20,000 people who failed to secure tickets in the initial ballot last year and missed out again in a second sale. Those customers will be given 31 hours exclusive access before the 1 million people who applied unsuccessfully in the initial ballot will then have their own exclusive 5-day sales period.
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