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Dispatches – Olympic Tickets for Sale – Channel 4

Dave — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:46:58 +0000

Channel 4 are showing a Dispatches special entitled “Olympic Tickets for Sale” that is to investigate where and to who London Olympic 2012 tickets were really given.

The show will be aired on Channel 4 at 8pm GMT on 13th February 2012.

London Olympic Football Tickets Go On Re-Sale

Dave — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:26:22 +0000

Tickets for both the men’s and women’s London 2012 Olympics football tournaments go on re-sale today.

Over 1.5million tickets are available to buy for nearly all of the Olympic football games in 2012.

Prices for tickets start at just £20 and there are reductions for children and those over 60 years old. The tickets will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis. So be quick!

The Team GB men’s side, coached by Stuart Pearce, play their first game of the Olympics at Old Trafford in Manchester on Thursday 26th, a day before the 2012 Games officially open.

The women’s team, coached by Hope Powell, play their first game on Wednesday 25th July the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, a day before the men’s first game.

Buy London Olympic football fickets from the official London 2012 Olympics website – www.tickets.london2012.com

London 2012 Festival Programme Announced

Dave — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:42:34 +0000

LOCOG today announced the programme for the London 2012 Festival; a breathtaking 12 week event with UK-wide celebrations bringing together artists from across the globe between 21th June to the 9th September 2012.

The festival will celebrate the wide range of the UK culture and allow the opportunity for people across the country to celebrate the London 2012 Olympic Games without necessarily having to be in London.

With the likes of Damon Albarn, Tracey Emin, Cate Blanchett, Jude Law and Damien Hirst taking part in the events, the London 2012 Festival will offer more than 10 million opportunities to see 1,000 performances and displayed throughout the UK.

Ruth Mackenzie, Cultural Olympiad Director, said: ‘From 21th June to 9th September 2012, across the whole of the UK, new work from the best artists, musicians, writers, comedians, film makers and other creative talent will be presented in the largest festival in the country.

Highlights of the programme for London 2012 Festival include:

The World Shakespeare Festival, a celebration of Shakespeare as the world’s playwright, produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company in an unprecedented collaboration with leading UK and international arts organisations.
The world’s largest and most influential dance initiative, the Big Dance, will expand to reach across the whole of the UK.
Yoko Ono will be the subject of a major exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, extending out of the Gallery and into Kensington Gardens.
The three-year BT Road to 2012 project will reach its conclusion at the National Portrait Gallery with a free exhibition of portraits taken by leading photographers.
Alfred Hitchcock’s early British masterpieces will be restored to their former glory and presented in a series of one-off screenings across London with live music.

Tony Hall, Chair of the Cultural Olympiad Board, said: ‘This is our chance to showcase what we do to the rest of the world and an opportunity for all sorts of people to taste something new and different.

‘The London 2012 Festival is going to be a wonderful celebration of world-class culture across the length and breadth of Britain at a time when we all need something to lift our spirits.’

An amazing summer for all!

A great range of music events will also be taking place throughout the UK for the Festival. ‘BT River of Music’, a spectacular weekend of free live music, will represent all 205 participating London 2012 nations, while BBC Radio 1 will stage its biggest-ever free live music event with ‘BBC Radio 1 Hackney Weekend 2012′.

The Mayor of London Boris Johnson said: ‘This quite extraordinary line up of artists, performers, events and activities will ensure that in London and throughout the country there is something for everyone, to enjoy, to be thrilled and be inspired by.

‘Here in London, we want to create a summer like no other, so that Londoners and visitors, wherever they are in the capital, come away feeling they have been part of something exhilarating, a unique moment in time the like of which they could get nowhere else.’

Some tickets are available now, but many more will become available in 2012.

London Paralympic Tickets Go On Sale Today

Dave — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:00:36 +0000

Paralympics tickets went on sale today for the London Olympic and Paraplymic Games in 2012.

Over two million tickets are now available across all of the Paralympic events that will be hosted in and around London next year.

The launch of the tickets going on sale was celebrated in style with stars from all over the world of disability sport exhibiting their talents. Thousands of spectators gathered in London to watch the events which was all staged in a bid to raise awareness for the often undersold Paralympic Games.

South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius and American rival Jerome Singleton, ran alongside schoolchildren in front of the National Gallery.

Pistorius, known as ‘The Bladerunner’ said “A lot of perceptions are going to be changed about how people view people with disabilities and on how they view Paralympic sport.”

Prime Minister David Cameron and London mayor Boris Johnson also got involved as the challenged two wheelchair tennis players to a game.

Sir Phillip Craven, International Paralympic Committee (IPC) president, hailed the day a success and said “The foundations for what could be the most successful Games ever are being laid in London. All we need now is the athletes.”

Enter the London Paralympics Ticket Ballot

The Paralympic opening ceremony is on 29th August 2012, 17 days after the Olympics ends, and the closing ceremony is on 9th September.

Over 4,000 Paralympians will compete for 499 gold medals. Half of the tickets will cost £10 or less and 95 per cent will cost less than £50.

Fans must register their interest via a ballot for tickets, the same system used for Olympics tickets, at www.tickets.london2012.com. Applications must be in before September 26th at 6pm.

Tottenham Ready To Abandon Olympic Stadium Bid

Dave — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:20:28 +0000

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club are today on the verge of abandoning their bid to acquire the London Olympic Stadium after the Games finish in 2012.

Tottenham FC have been locked in a legal battle with the Olympic Park Legacy Company’s (OPLC) after their decision to hand the £486 million stadium to rivals West Ham United after the close of the Olympics.

The club was due in the High Court today, Wednesday 24 August, seeking a judicial review over OPLC’s agreement to give the stadium to West Ham.

However late yesterday evening, Tuesday 23 August, Tottenham officials were involved in “intense negotiations” with the London mayor, Boris Johnson, over plans to build a brand new stadium for Tottenham close to where their current stadium is located.

“If these negotiations are concluded successfully as expected, the appeal will be dropped,” a senior government source has relieved.

What do you think? Are you a Tottenham fan who thinks the Olympic stadium should be acquired by the club or maybe you’re a West Ham fan who doesn’t want to move into the Olympic stadium? Let me know!

Just One Year To Go Until The 2012 London Olympics

Dave — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:53:05 +0000

The countdown has begun!

On July 27th 2012, the Olympic Games will open with an amazing ceremony in London to welcome athletes, spectators and the world to England.

This time next year, all eyes of the world will be focused on London as the Opening Ceremony takes place in the brand new prestigious Olympic Stadium. Over 3.5 million tickets have been sold for the London 2012 Games so far, and today sees the final countdown to “the greatest show in the world” begin. Events at the Aquatic Centre it the Olympic Park and in Trafalgar Square will kickstart a year of outstanding sporting and cultural activities all over the UK in preparation for the Games.

With just one year to go, how excited are you for the arrival of this once in a life time event in England? All of us here can’t wait!

However the most important question is; Will all of the new London Olympic facilities be ready in time?!

Second Chance to Buy London Olympic Tickets!

Dave — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:31:13 +0000

If you entered the initial Olympic 2012 tickets ballot, you now have a second chance to sign up for further tickets as of today on a first-come first-served basis.

Regardless of whether you were sucessful or unsucessful in getting London Olympic tickets the first time around, from today you can buy a second lot of tickets for various events in 2012.

Some 1.5 million tickets for football, 40,000 for volleyball and 8,000 for freestyle wrestling are on offer.

They are all being sold on a first-come first-served basis in a process which finishes at 6pm BST on 17th July – so be quick!

There are an estimated 700,000 people that are eligible to buy tickets with another 150,000 people who ordered tickets in an earlier phase.

Second chance for 2012 tickets

More than 3.5 million London Olympic tickets have been sold to date, according to LOCOG.

The second lot of tickets are available for football, volleyball and freestyle wrestling which cover 58 sessions and 130 price categories. All of the other sports at the Games are sold out.

The football tickets include both men’s and women’s matches at Wembley Stadium, London; City of Coventry Stadium; Millennium Stadium, Cardiff; Hampden Park, Glasgow; St James’ Park, Newcastle; and Old Trafford, Manchester.

Football events make up the bulk of this second wave of tickets available as the matches are played in large venues.

The volleyball tickets are for both men’s and women’s sessions based at Earls Court, while the freestyle wrestling is taking place at the Excel Centre in the east of London.

Another major, and final, round of ticket sales will take place in early 2012.

Olympic Day Contest on Twitter!

Dave — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:15:53 +0000

On every 23rd June, Olympic Day is celebrated all around the world. Hundreds of thousands of people, both young and old, participate in sporting activities ranging from brisk walks to fierce competitions.

To celebrate Olympic Day 2011 the International Olympic Committee is running a competition to give one lucky Twitter user an all inclusive trip to the London Olympic Summer Games in 2012!

To enter the contest all you have to do is register your Twitter details then post either a photo or a video of you participating in a random athletic activity and use #olympicday hashtag on your Tweet.

Visit http://contest.olympic.org/ for more information and to enter the competition.

Good luck!

We Are Not Affiliated With LOCOG, IOC, USOC or NOC

Dave — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:14:25 +0000

Note from webmaster: Due to a recent idiot trying to scam me, I feel that I need to reiterate what I have always stated on my ‘About‘ page:

“Please note that we are an independant website and have no affiliation with any London Hotels, Hostels, B&B’s or any other London Accommodation. Our only interest lies on sourcing you all of the very best value and quality London accommodation for the 2012 London Olympic Games.

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We are here to simply provide news and showcase some accommocation options in the countdown to the biggest event ever to be held in London in recent times; the 2012 Olympics. Any further questions, please get in touch.

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Dave

Money Taken For Olympics Tickets: Have You Been Lucky?

Dave — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:44:19 +0000

As of midnight last night, LOCOG say that all money has now been taken for London Olympic tickets.

If no money has been taken from your account, you have unfortunately not been successful.

Have you got all the tickets you applied for? Have you got none? How much have you had to pay out? Let’s hear your stories..!