Olympics tickets cost £2,000 each

DHAKA: Furious sports fans hit out at the London Olympics ticket sales process once again yesterday, as event bosses were slammed for trying to flog some for as much as £2,012.

Thousands were trying for their last chance to gain entrance to some of the most popular Olympic events as the latest tranche of tickets went on sale at 11am yesterday morning.

But almost as soon as the tickets went on sale, hundreds were already taking to Twitter to broadcast their frustration at the online buying process.

And the London Olympic organising committee (LOCOG) is also coming under pressure to explain its failure to shift `prestige` tickets, on sale for prices ranging between £295 to £1,800.

The tickets that went on sale yesterday, `AA` tickets for the opening ceremony cost £2,012, and the cheapest available for that event were £995. Many were still unsold by 5pm.

So far, 7million of the total 8.8million Olympic tickets have been shifted, and about half of the 2.45million Paralympic tickets, in a process that began last year.
Left out: Former decathlete Daley Thompson has been unable to get any tickets for the games at all

Left out: Former decathlete Daley Thompson has been unable to get any tickets for the games at all

LOCOG still has about 550,000 tickets to sell with just weeks to go to the start of the Games on July 27. (dailymail)

BDST: 2150 HRS, JUN 09, 2012

Edited by: Abul Kalam Azad, Newsroom Editor