Tickets scramble for London Olympics

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Around 200 people who thought to watch synchronized swimming have received an unexpected upgrade to the men's 100m final following an embarrassing ticketing mistake.

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The London 2012 organising committee (Locog) confirmed that a decidedly unsynchronized error in its ticketing process had led to four synchronized swimming sessions being oversold by 10,000 tickets.

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Locog said the error occurred when a member of staff made a single keystroke mistake and entered '20,000' into a spreadsheet rather than the correct figure of 10,000 remaining tickets. The error was discovered when Locog reconciled the number of tickets sold against the final layouts and seating configurations for venues, and began contacting ticket holders before Christmas. They were doing all it could to make good the error to fans who bought tickets in good faith, offering them alternatives, starting with tickets for sports they had applied for but been unsuccessful.The upgrades have come at no additional cost, with Locog not charging for any discrepancy between the synchronized swimming tickets and the alternatives on offer. It has also offered to repay any discrepancy if the new tickets cost less than the originals. The replacement tickets would come from a stock of unsold seats across the Olympic Games.

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Thousands of ticketholders have already struck lucky, upgrading to tickets for major events including swimming and athletics finals, and in around 200 cases the hottest ticket of all, the men's 100m final, because one of the synchronized swimming sessions is on the same afternoon as the event, August 5.

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