London 2012 Olympics: those without any tickets will be top of list for more seats

When more tickets are released, those people who tried, but failed, to buy any tickets for the London 2012 Olympic Games will be given priority over anyone else in the second ballot. They will be contacted with about a week before they go sale. It is estimated that at least one in seven, or 250.000 of the 1.8 million households who applied for tickets, will not have received a single seat for the events. The organizers have said that if no money has been taken off an applicant’s card or from their account by the end of May 31, it is almost certain they will have failed to get any tickets.

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I think it is a very nice deal that the organization made with the hundreds of people who tried to get a ticket, but failed. They assume that people who did not try to get a ticket the first round, are not interested. However, I think this is not realistic. If you forgot it, or just decided later that you want to go to the Olympic Games, you now surely won’t get a ticket!

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