Sunday 26 June 2011

London Olympics for the second phase has been sold

Around 850,000 tickets, football, volleyball and wrestling 2012 London still seats left for the Olympics in sales for the second phase has been sold, organizers said.

London 2012 chairman Lord Coe accepted that there are other sales begin Friday at 6am, have failed since the "still some disappointment" is.

First come first served tickets for the second phase of the struggle which has 1.2 million people who have applied had completely missed out on the actual sale is open to almost two-thirds.

Around 850,000 more than 150,000 requests for tickets have been processed after Friday. Tickets subject to payment of just under 90 percent is found.

About 60% of applications requested in the first two hours and during that time was in 10 games sold out within 15 minutes more.

The demand for large-scale mean about 10% in the period were not successful. 2.3 million tickets on sale there and 24 games in the second round of 18 sales were sold by Friday evening were.

Boxing and weightlifting were sold yesterday by the London 2012 said. Football, in the second round of ticket sales was for 1.7 million is still available.

Volleyball, Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling tickets remain for sale.

Lord Coe said: "Over 130,000 more people will now have tickets to the Games following the first day of the 'second chance sale' on Friday. We know there is still some disappointment from those who were not successful in their requests but we will continue to do everything we can to get them to the Games."

They were successful in the first round on July 17 and July 8 from 6pm to 6am will have the chance to buy tickets. Another important phase of ticket sales will take place in early 2012.

Wednesday 15 June 2011

Champion Leigh Howard says Australia duel 'is going to win', London 2012 Olympics

Leigh Howard of HTC-Highroad has told Telegraph Sport Australian athletes on track next year will win the war but admitted that "it's going to be one hell of a battle. "

Howard, who with Mayor Cameron 2011 world track championships in the Netherlands won Madison said that he was confident Australia Velodrome London next year will come out on top is.

Howard said, "There's some amazing talent coming through, that's for sure".

"I don't know if there has been as much investment in cycling as say there was in Britain, but the more people we get into the sport, the more talent we're going to pick up. I think what makes us so strong is our mentality towards sport in general. In Australia we don't like losing and we're willing to fight hard to win.

"It's going to be one hell of a battle in London, there's no doubt about it. We have some serious talent coming through and we've showed promise at all the world championships over the past three years since the last Olympics. But in saying that the British have got some super-strong guys coming back from Beijing and coming back ready for London.

"Let's also not count out the other countries like Russia who are really starting to show their hand and New Zealand. But country versus country it's going to be a really closely fought battle between Australia and Great Britain on the track, that's in no doubt."

However, Howard is sure that Australia will come out on top is.

"The Aussies are going to win, we killed it in Athens then we had a bad time in Beijing and I think we put in a lot of time and investment to get our trackies back on top and I think it will pay off."

Sunday 5 June 2011

Model maker Hornbt turned by Star Wars and London Olympics

Model maker Hornby is known for its Airfix, Corgi and Scalextric brands, he has jumped more than 8% despite a £1.1m fall in full year profits to £4.1m.

Investors the benefits of reduction in capital after the company said that the London 2012 Olympics and is expected to promote purchase and sale and that he also announced a range of Star Wars Scalextric products worldwide license for Was achieved.

Chief executive Frank Martin said: "As the [Star Wars] films are converted into 3D format by Lucasfilm over the next few years, we anticipate we will get an encouraging reaction to our new range of speeder bikes and X-wing fighters".