Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games: Email concern

Some applicants for Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games tickets have yet to hear back on whether they have been successful, it has emerged.

Yahoo! email accounts are understood to be among those affected by the delay in emails to applicants for Commonwealth Games tickets. Picture: Getty

The majority of people who applied for tickets were sent emails confirming whether or not they had been successful on Monday.

However, organisers said that “a limited number” of emails had not been received by applicants. People with Yahoo! email accounts are those understood to be affected.

A Glasgow 2014 spokesman said: “Glasgow 2014 has communicated ticket allocations successfully with 97 per cent of applicants.

“We recognise that a limited number of people have not yet received emails however all Glasgow 2014 ticket applicants can now view their allocation by logging into the official Glasgow 2014 ticketing website and using their customer reference number.”

A spokesman for Yahoo said: “It is correct that delays can happen when organisations send large volumes of emails over a short period as we need to confirm that the mass-mailings are not spam.”

Around 2.3 million requests for tickets had been made for up to one million tickets between August and September.