Crowds gather for the London 2012 Olympics tickets pre-registration

As a response to fake websites offering tickets for this great event, Locog, the London organizing committee announced the first ticketing for London 2012 Olympics. 150,000 people already declared their interest in buying tickets in nine hours.

Locog invited the eager public to pre-register online for the 8m Olympics tickets and 2m Paralympics tickets, issuing also a warning against fake tickets sellers on which lawyers already are pressing charges. For creating extra seats on those heavily wanted events like rowing and cycling, some sessions like beach volleyball will me made shorter.

There are available more than 300,000 tickets over what was expected for Olympics and 500,000 more for Paralympics; rumors say that the cheapest ones will come with prices around £20, price including free transport to London in the day of the event. Although this online pre-registration is only being marketed in the UK, anyone in the EU may apply for tickets, no barriers.

Locog’s chief executive, Paul Deighton stated for public that nobody can buy a ticket until 2011, anyone selling tickets until then it is a scammer and should be denounced to police. The tickets will be distributed 75% for public, 8% for sponsors and broadcasters and 4% to travel and hospitality packages resellers, while the rest will go to national Olympic associations and to the IOC.

For those who want to pre-register for a ticket, visit organizer’s website or call 0844 847 2012, provide the information requested and wait for the next spring when tickets will go on sale.