Olympic tickets rush hours

The “golden” Olympic tickets sale opened this morning at 11am.

Those who missed out twice in previous sales more than a year ago were given the exclusive chance to apply once again on a first-come first-served basis.

There are almost 80,000 seats on sale and each of the 20,000 applicants is entitled to a maximum of four tickets for a single event.

The sale will last until 6pm on May 12 and seats will be available across all sports.

According to organiser Locog all the remaining tickets will be up for grabs from May 13 at 11am until May 17 for about 1.2 million people who missed out once in the ballot in March last year but did not try to buy any tickets in the second round.

While the “lucky losers” are bidding for the large chunks of the tickets that Locog had held back until venue capacities had been finally set, there is still hope for those who have never applied.

In fact from May 23 they will be given the last pick of any remaining tickets of all varieties if there are still seats available.

Those who missed out twice in previous sales more than a year ago have been labelled “Fans 2606” as they received an email from Locog on June 26, 2011 letting them know they had been unsuccessful even in the second round.