Second chance to buy tickets for the Olympics

900.000 Olympic tickets go on sale this Friday

 The Independant        by Martin Zieger                                               8 May 2012
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/900000-olympic-tickets-to-go-on-sale-this-friday-7722471.html

On Friday the 11th of may there will be a second chance for people who couldn’t get tickets the first time because of a failure of the ticket system. The people will get the opportunity to buy tickets within 31 hours before it is accessible for others.  Every person can buy no more than 4 tickets.  

London 2012 chairman Sebastruan said that the organization has decided to give the buyers a second chance to make up the ticket problems they had before. To prevent new problems by an overloaded system,  tickets for different sports will be on sale every day. The final ticket sale willl be closer to the Games when there is more known about the venues.

Personal Opinion

I heard about the problems with the tickets from people who live in london, it was a complete mess the inhabitans couldn't buy any tickets, only for cycling or hockey. The man I spoke was very disappointed and  angry. I am wondering if he is  now one of the "lucky" ones, who gets another chance. It is also amazing that the sale of tickets for such a big event is so bad organised, that everyone experience such problems. Nevertheless,  it was a nice gesture from the organisation to give the disappointed buyers a new chance.