Olympic tickets resale drive underway for London 2012 Games

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Friday, January 6, 2012
7:23 AM

Thousands of people have been offered tickets to alternative events at the London Olympics after organisers admitted an error led to 10,000 too many tickets being sold for synchronised swimming sessions.

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Human error is believed to be responsible for 20,000 tickets being put on sale in the second round of sales for four of the sessions in the aquatics centre rather than 10,000.

Around 3,000 people have been contacted by Games organisers and are being offered tickets for alternative events they had applied for previously.

For some, this means they will now be able to attend high-demand events they had missed out on.

These include the men?s 1,500m athletics final for at least one person, while writer Stella Duffy revealed on Twitter she had exchanged her synchronised swimming tickets for ones to swimming finals.

A London 2012 spokesperson said: ?As a result of finalising the seating configurations in our venues and reconciling the millions of Olympic and Paralympic ticket orders against the seating plans for around 1,000 sporting sessions, we have discovered an error in seats available in four synchronised swimming sessions.

?In December we contacted around 3,000 customers who had applied for tickets in the four sessions during the second round sales process.

?We are exchanging their synchronised swimming tickets for tickets in other sports that they originally applied for.?

London 2012 confirmed the error after details emerged of an email they had sent to ticket buyers offering the alternative events.

The alternative tickets will come from the pot of one million contingency tickets for all events that are due to go on sale in May once the seating configuration has been finalised at all the venues.

The process for people to resell any unwanted tickets in their possession opens on Friday.

Source: http://www.london24.com/olympic_tickets_resale_drive_underway_for_london_2012_games_1_1170164

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