More than a million people have applied to watch the men's 100 metres final at the 2012 London Olympics, meaning hundreds of thousands will be disappointed.
More than a million people have applied to watch the men's 100 metres final at the 2012 London Olympics, meaning hundreds of thousands will be disappointed.
The Olympic Stadium has a capacity of 80,000 but only about half of these places are available to the public for the sought-after sprint on August 5, with the rest taken up by sponsors, VIPs and the media, officials said.
"We have more than one million requests for the 100-metre final," a spokeswoman for the London 2012 Organising Committee said.
The 100m final is likely to feature reigning Olympic champion and world record holder Usain Bolt.
During a six-week application window that closed last month, about 1.8 million people submitted more than 20 million requests to watch Olympic events, with a total of 6.6 million tickets available.
Oversubscribed events will be allocated by ballot, and applicants will be notified by June 24 at the latest whether they have been successful -- although the money will be taken out of their bank accounts this month.
AFP
