London 2012 Olympics: Fans' fury as they fail to get tickets

Thousands mounted a last-gasp bid for entrance to some of the most popular Games events as thousands of ordinary tickets went on sale online today.

But as the tickets were released at 11am this morning hundreds of people took to Twitter to express frustration at the buying process.

Even Olympics legend Daley Thompson told how he had failed to get any tickets and had ?wasted 45 minutes? on the London 2012 website.

Tickets for the opening and closing ceremonies, as well as for athletics, swimming, boxing, table tennis, volleyball and football at Wembley Stadium, were made available through the Olympics website this morning.

Prices ranged from ?20 to ?720 across the 96 available events, while tickets for the opening and closing ceremonies start at ?995.

To date more than seven million tickets have been sold for the Olympics and 1.25 million for the Paralympics, with about three million tickets remaining ? most of them for football.

Angry buyers told how they waited for the online system to tell them whether they had secured their chosen tickets only to be told that there were no more available.

Former Olympic gold medal winning decathlete Thompson Tweeted: ?I bet I?m not alone in being unable to get any tickets on 2012 website wasted 45mins and I want them so badly?

And Television and BBC radio presenter Sarah-Jane Crawford Tweeted: ?I?m trying to get some tickets for the Olympics but when I click ?request tickets? on the site, it just refreshes page and tells me nothing??

And Twitter used Neil Robertson wrote: ?Appear to have more chance of winning lottery tonight than getting Olympics tickets!?

LBC presenter Anthony Davis said: ?I?m in the virtual queue for #Olympics tickets. 3 min wait to see if I?ve been successful. The official ticket website is a joke.

?Been trying to buy Olympic tickets for 35 mins. Nothing available for under ?450 each apparently? gutted.?

Deborah Roback wrote: ?What a rubbish system, impossible to find available tickets for any event.?

However some fans were more successful.

Charlotte Bonnar wrote: ?Just got tickets for opening and closing ceremonies at the Olympics.?

And Twitter user Karen Roberts wrote: ?Just bought athletics tickets for the Olympics!! We?re gonna be there for the Mens 100m first round so should see Bolt!! So happy.?

Henry Fosdike added: ?After about six months, I seem to have finally got some Olympics tickets.?

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