30/07/2012
Tickets Go 'Back In Pot' After Weekend's Empty Seats
More Olympic tickets will go back on sale after rows of empty seats were visible at the weekend's events.
Organisers Locogs said an initial 3,000 tickets - including 600 gymnastics tickets - were "put back into the pot" and sold on the London 2012 website on Sunday night.
Prime Minister David Cameron, meanwhile, said the empty seats were "disappointing" but not "a unique episode" when compared with previous Games.
Organisers said the empty seats were in the accredited "Olympic family" areas, reserved for groups including officials, sports federations, athletes, journalists and sponsors.
Locog communications director Jackie Brock-Doyle told the BBC organisers were doing everything they could to fix the problem.
She said: "We're doing this session by session, talking to the accredited groups - including obviously broadcast media and everybody else - and asking whether we can release, for the different sessions, tickets back into the public pot."
And she said 15% less of this kind of seating had been set aside in London 2012 than in previous Games.
Over the weekend, the sight of empty seats infuriated members of the public who had been unable to get hold of tickets.
And in a neat blend of two crises at the Olympics so far, soldiers drafted in to help out when private security firm G4S failed to recruit enough staff for the Games were also drafted in to fill the empty seats on their breaks.
(NE)
Organisers Locogs said an initial 3,000 tickets - including 600 gymnastics tickets - were "put back into the pot" and sold on the London 2012 website on Sunday night.
Prime Minister David Cameron, meanwhile, said the empty seats were "disappointing" but not "a unique episode" when compared with previous Games.
Organisers said the empty seats were in the accredited "Olympic family" areas, reserved for groups including officials, sports federations, athletes, journalists and sponsors.
Locog communications director Jackie Brock-Doyle told the BBC organisers were doing everything they could to fix the problem.
She said: "We're doing this session by session, talking to the accredited groups - including obviously broadcast media and everybody else - and asking whether we can release, for the different sessions, tickets back into the public pot."
And she said 15% less of this kind of seating had been set aside in London 2012 than in previous Games.
Over the weekend, the sight of empty seats infuriated members of the public who had been unable to get hold of tickets.
And in a neat blend of two crises at the Olympics so far, soldiers drafted in to help out when private security firm G4S failed to recruit enough staff for the Games were also drafted in to fill the empty seats on their breaks.
(NE)
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