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More Than One Million Apply For '12 Games 100m Final Tickets

LOCOG has received more than one million ticket requests for the '12 London Games men's 100m final. Around half the seats in the 80,000-seat Olympics Stadium "have been made available to the public" during the event, with the other 40,000 "being handed to sponsors, VIPs and the media" (GUARDIAN.co.uk, 5/20). With the initial application process for the 6.6 million Olympic tickets now closed, LOCOG said that it received "20 million applications from 1.8 million individuals." Organizers are "not giving a detailed breakdown of how many applications they have received for individual sessions" (REUTERS, 5/20).

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