London 2012 ticket shock

LESS than half the tickets for the major events at the London Olympics were sold to the British public, the Games organisers have revealed.

Shock figures on ticket allocations at London 2012 will infuriate Brits who were unable to buy seats via the ballot system.

The cycling velodrome was the scene of some of Team GB’s greatest triumphs.

But of the 4,331 seats at each track cycling session LOCOG made only 1,957 gw2 gold (45 per cent) available for sale directly to the public.

And on the final evening of action on August 7 when Chris Hoy became the first Briton to win six Olympic titles just 322 of the tickets were priced in the cheapest category at £50.

More than 1,000 of the tickets cost £150 or more — 364 of them were sold for £325. A large number of seats sold for £20 or less, 1.3million for the football event.

Only 2,160 cycling tickets were that cheap.

Only three per cent of tickets were available to the British public on the day Novak Djokovic (left) began his Olympic tennis campaign.

A LOCOG spokesman said: “We met or exceeded all of our commitments and sold 76 per cent of all Olympic tickets directly to the British public ahead of our target.

“We are also required to sell tickets to international fans.”