Olympics out of sync on swim tickets

YOU wouldn’t imagine it being the hottest ticket of the London 2012 Olympics, but organisers admitted yesterday that an error has led to 10,000 too many tickets being sold for synchronised swimming sessions at this summer’s Games.

Around 3,000 people have been contacted by London 2012 and are being offered tickets for alternative events they had applied for – including athletics.

A London 2012 spokesperson said: “As a result of finalising the seating configurations and reconciling the millions of 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.”

A human error is believed to be responsible for 20,000 tickets being put on sale rather than 10,000. The process for people to re-sell any unwanted tickets in their possession opens tomorrow.