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  • 13 May 2012, 11:47

More Tickets For London 2012 Games On Sale

People who have missed out on Olympic tickets are being given another chance to go to the Games in a fresh sale starting today.

Some 900,000 more tickets are being sold and are specifically being made available to the 1.2million fans who lost out in previous ballots.

Events featuring in the Sunday's draw include hockey, tennis, football and beach volleyball.

More tickets, including athletics, swimming, cycling and diving, go on sale in the coming days.

The latest sale is for people who did not get any tickets in the first ballot and then were not able to or did not apply the second time they were made available.

Another 70,000 tickets for the Olympic Park will be on offer for this group from May 17 and on May 23 all the unsold tickets for the Games will be put on general release.

Organisers of the Games have come under fire for the complicated ballot system for tickets, which has seen many fans left disappointed.

Different tickets will be available over the next five days, from 11am each day.

They are:

:: May 13 - beach volleyball, hockey, tennis, wrestling, football;

:: May 14 - athletics - marathon, Athletics - race walk, canoe slalom and sprint, cycling - track, shooting, swimming, volleyball, weightlifting;

:: May 15 - diving, equestrianism, handball, swimming - marathon, synchonrised swimming, table tennis, water polo;

:: May 16 - badminton, basketball, boxing, fencing, gymnastics, judo, sailing, taekwondo;

:: May 17 - archery, basketball, cycling (BMX, mountain bike, road), modern pentathlon, rowing, triathlon, Olympic Park tickets.

Tickets that are not sold on any day will be carried forward. Fans will only be able to buy up to four tickets for one sport.

Once they have bought tickets, they will not be able to buy any more during the five-day period.

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3 comments

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7:54am on 13/5/2012

Beach volleyball, are you taking the p***.Next it'll be olympic ollies, or olympic tap dancing. Some events just aren't a measure of human ability. Horse riding events are particularly unworthy of the Olympics. That's no measure of human ability. Obviously slotted in for the toffs, but isn't everything made for them ??

Mike Drouin

9:29am on 13/5/2012

WHYnot have sold them all first time around , obviosly someone is making a lot of extra money by doing it the way they have , seems pathetic ( just as playing silly games are )

Gordon Wright

1:56pm on 13/5/2012

Who cares ???

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