The 900,000 tickets will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis exclusively to people who applied in previous rounds of sales but didn’t get any tickets.
At 11am on Friday, tickets will be available to the 20,000 people who were unsuccessful twice – in both the first Olympic ballot application and the second chance sales. They will be given a 31-hour exclusive window to buy tickets.
The one million people who were unsuccessful in the original ballot will then have a five-day sales window to make purchases. Buyers will only be able to apply for one event and a maximum of four tickets. Locog also revealed that the remaining tickets for the Paralympic Games will go on sale from 11am on 21 May.
Sebastian Coe, chair of Locog, said it had kept its promise to prioritise those who had missed out on tickets. He said: "We know thousands of sports fans were disappointed when they missed out in the initial sales period because of the massive demand for tickets. We promised we would prioritise these fans when we released the contingency tickets, which is exactly what we are doing."
Next Thursday (17 May) approximately 70,000 will also go on sale for the first time, allowing access to the Olympic Park to watch sport on big screens.
The news comes as it was revealed that Millennium Stadium in Cardiff could be virtually empty for the first Olympic event – the women’s football match between Great Britain and New Zealand on 25 April. Only 11,000 tickets have been sold for the match, filling a seventh of the 70,000 seat venue.
A spokesperson from Locog told Event it expected sales to pick up after the teams playing were revealed in the football draw on 24 April.
Meanwhile, The Olympic Park is today welcoming 1,600 young athletes for the final day of the Sainsbury’s 2012 School Games. The games are being held in four venues – the Olympic Stadium, Velodrome, Aquatics Centre and Basketball Arena – and will be watched by around 35,000 people.
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