750,000 Olympics tickets sold in 'second chance' round

More than 750,000 tickets for next year's London Olympics have been sold to 150,000 people in phase one of the "second chance" sales round.

Phase one, which closed at 1800 BST on Sunday, was open to those who did not receive any tickets in the first round sale earlier this year.

Over 3.5 million Olympic tickets have now been sold, organisers say.

More tickets will now be put up for sale to 700,000 applicants between 8 and 17 July.

The only sports for which tickets are still available are football, volleyball and freestyle wrestling, the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) said.

About 1.5 million tickets remain for men's and women's football matches at Wembley Stadium, City of Coventry Stadium, the Millenium Stadium in Cardiff, Hampden Park in Glasgow, St James's Park in Newcastle and Manchester's Old Trafford.

Around 40,000 volleyball tickets are available for men's and women's volleyball sessions at Earl's Court

Some 8,000 wrestling tickets at Excel are also available.

A full list of available sessions and price categories will published this week on the official website.

Locog commercial director Chris Townsend said: "We now have at least 150,000 more successful applicants - and they and their friends and families are now going to the Games.

"Our goal is to get as many members of the British public to the Games as possible, and we have sold over 750,000 tickets to people who were unsuccessful in the first round."